Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Draper, Elma M. Nelson, 1951 

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Rites Held For Mrs. Elma Draper 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Elma Mae Nelson Draper, 63, who died at her home 
325 York Street, Friday night after a short illness, were conducted yesterday 
at 2:30 at the I.O. Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. Julian S. Hopkins. 

  A quartet composed of Mrs. Willard Mathews, Mrs. Vernon Spivey, Byron 
Cutchins and M.O. Spence, accompanied by Mrs. Webb Pinner, sang, "What a 
Friend We Have In Jesus," "Jesus Keep me Near the Cross," and "Safe In the 
Arms of Jeans." 

  The pall was of lilies, white carnations, and red roses.  Burial was in 
Cedar Hill cemetery. 

  Pallbearers were J.W. Ward, Duke Ellis, Sol Wiggins, Otha Rountree, E.J. 
Sitterson, Wade Harrington, S.H. Hassen, and Willie Hawkins.  Friends of the 
family served as honorary pallbearers. 


Elma May (NELSON; Mrs. John Wallace) DRAPER, 
b. 13 Sep 1883*, Conway, Northampton Co., NC, 
d. 26 Jan 1951, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 144*), Suffolk, 19 Jan 1951, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 29, No. 24, Mon., Jan. 29, 1951, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of her gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #191584886. 

Her father, Hezekiah Noah NELSON (1845 - 1912), is buried in the same lot: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_m.txt 

D.Cert. 1022 (Suffolk #29) gives b. 14 Apr 1887 ["1883" struck]. 


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