Nansemond-Dinwiddie County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Ford, M. Elizabeth Jones, 1899 

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TOWN OF SUFFOLK 

Senator Butler's Confederate Pension Resolution. 

Tom Smith Camp Repudiates Them - Death of Mrs. Ford - Literary Club - 
   Good Day for Marriages - Personal and General. 

    (Special to Virginian-Pilot.) 

  Suffolk, Va., Feb. 8. - [...] 

MRS. FORD'S DEATH. 

  Mrs. Bettie Ford died this morning just before 5 o'clock at her home, on 
Central avenue.  She had been ill for several weeks.  The deceased leaves 
a husband, Mr. Fred Ford, three sisters and three brothers.  Mrs. Ford 
contracted a severe cold, which was never checked. 

  The deceased was a member of the Main Street Methodist Church, from which 
the funeral service will be conducted to-morrow afternoon at 3:30.  Mrs. Ford 
was formerly Miss Bettie Jones, of Petersburg.  She lived a Christian life 
and died a Christian death. 

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SUFFOLK. 

Special to The Landmark. 

  Suffolk, Va., February 9. - [...] 

  The funeral of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Ford took place at the Main Street 
Methodist Church this afternoon and the interment was made in Cedar Hill 
Cemetery.  Rev. W.T. Green, the pastor, conducted the services.  A large 
assemblage of sorrowing friends were present and the floral offerings were 
magnificent and costly.  Mrs. Jones, the chief lady at the Virginia 
Manufacturing Company, presented a lovely pillow of carnations and white 
roses, and Mr. George T. Ford, of Norfolk, brother of Mrs. [sic; Mr.] 
Frederick O. Ford, the husband of the deceased, presented a beautiful crescent 
and star pendant of the same flowers, both being backed by immortelles. 

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Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" (JONES; Mrs. Frederick Oscar) FORD, 
b. 20 Nov 1869, Dinwiddie Co., d. 8 Feb 1899, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 132*), Suffolk, 9 Feb 1899, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Vol. 2, No. 111, Thurs., Feb. 9, 1899, p. 7; 
"Norfolk (VA) Landmark," Vol. 48, No. 31, Fri., Feb. 10, 1899, p. 6, 
   clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #191273411, 
   by Martha Fontaine Byrum 

*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 also posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #191273411, which gives her maiden name as VALENTINE. 

Her sister Dora Winfield (JONES; Mrs. George Washington) BOYKIN (1874 - 1929) 
   is buried in Block F, Lot 151: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

Their mother, "Mollie" Mary S. (THRIFT; Mrs. "Archie" Archer Winfield) JONES 
   (1845 - 1921), is also buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_j.txt 

Curiously, Bettie's new-born infant is not mentioned.  The child's obit 
   ("Norfolk Landmark," June 9, 1899, p. 6) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/f630i1ob.txt 


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