Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Copeland, Lelia B. Rodgers, 1926 

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LELIA BEVERLY RODGERS COPELAND

MRS. LELIA B. COPELAND IS DEAD NEAR LUMMIS

   Suffolk,  Feb. 15 - Mrs. Lelia B. Copeland, prominent woman of the county, 
wife of J.W. Copeland, died this afternoon at 2 o’clock at her home near 
Lummis, Va., after a short illness, aged 63.  Besides her husband she is 
survived by five children, Mrs. W.B. Holland, of Holland, Va.; Mrs. Annie C. 
Felton, of Lummis, Va.; Miss Mamie Copeland, of Smithfield, Va.; Richard Henry 
Copeland, of Norfolk, Va.; J.H. Copeland of Lummis, Va.; three sisters, Mrs. 
Irving Truitt, of Suffolk, Va.; Mrs. R.C. Norfleet, of Box Elder, Va.; Miss 
Georgia Rodgers, of Capron, Va.; three brothers, L.A. Rodgers and Emmett 
Rodgers, of Cypress Chapel, Va., and J.T. Rodgers, of Whaleyville, Va.

   Mrs. Copeland was the daughter of the late Richard Rodgers, a pioneer 
citizen of Nansemond.  She was a member of Whaleyville Methodist Church and 
was active in church and social life of the county.  She was connected by 
birth and marriage with a number of the leading families of the county.

   Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the 
Holland Baptist Church by the Rev. L.F. Paulette, assisted by the Rev. Dr. 
N.G. Newman and the Rev. O.L. Gilliam.  Interment will be made in the family 
cemetery near Lummis, Va.


Lelia Beverly (RODGERS/ROGERS; Mrs. Jesse W.) COPELAND, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 15 Feb 1926, at home, near Lummis, age 63, 
interred in the COPELAND family cemetery*, Pioneer Rd., near Box Elder, 
   16 Feb 1926, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-16), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol2.txt 

Her husband's (donated, 1934) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/c145j2ob.txt 


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