Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bray, Minnie Lorraine Brown, 1959 

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MINNIE LORRAINE BROWN BRAY 

Mrs. Minnie Bray Buried Yesterday 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Lorraine Bray, who died Sunday at her home 
in Scotland Neck, N.C., were conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Hill Funeral 
Home by the Rev. W.W. Sherman, pastor of Scotland Neck Methodist Church. 
Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

  Mrs. J. Webb Pinner Jr., organist, played two hymns, "My Faith Looks Up To 
Thee" and "Rock Of Ages." 

  The casket was covered with a pall of lavender chrysanthemums and pink 
carnations. 

  Pallbearers were Alfred Russell, Earl Russell, E. Graham Mathias, J.T. Duck, 
John E. Freeman, Thurman Jordan, W.W. Bratton and Quinton Jordan. 

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Mrs. Minnie Bray 

   SUFFOLK - Mrs. Minnie Lorraine Bray, 70, died Sunday at 8:45 a.m. in 
Community Hospital, Scotland Neck, N.C. 

   A daughter of John and Amelia [sic*] Russell Brown, she was a native of 
Gates County, N.C., and the widow of Grover C. Bray. 

   She is survived by two sons, Grover Lloyd Bray of Scotland Neck, with whom 
she lately made her home, and Russell Elliott Bray of Charlotte, N.C.; six 
sisters, Mrs. A.D. Newton of Wilmington, N.C., Mrs. W.T. Taylor of Franklin, 
Mrs. J.A. King of Gates, N.C., Mrs. C.L. Eason of Norfolk, Mrs. J.T. Duck of 
Franklin and Mrs. Quinton Jordan of Suffolk, and a brother, John E. Brown, of 
Troutville. 

   Services were held at I.O. Hill & Co. Funeral Home here Tuesday at 2 p.m. 
by the Rev. W.W. Sherman of Scotland Neck Methodist Church.  Burial was in 
Cedar Hill Cemetery here. 

   Pallbearers were Alfred Russell, Earl Russell, E. Graham Mathias, J.T. 
Duck, John E. Freeman, Thurman Jordan, W.W. Bratton and Quinton Jordan. 


Minnie Lorraine (BROWN; Mrs. Grover Cleveland) BRAY, 
b. 21 May 1889, Gates Co., NC, d. 1 Nov 1959, Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., NC, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 3 Nov 1959, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 261, Wed., Nov. 4, 1959, p. 3; 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 55, No. 4, Thurs., Nov. 5, 1959, 
   Sect. I, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #94075513. 

D.Cert. 30588 

The 1900 Census - Gatesville, Gates Co., NC - gives Addie M., b. May 1889. 

Minnie's M.Cert. gives her mother as Permelia. 

Her mother Amelia F. (RUSSELL; Mrs. John R.) BROWN (1858 - 1928) 
   was buried in a family cemetery, Easons Xrds., Gates Co., NC. 


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