Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Howell, G. Thomas, 1937 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MORTUARY Funeral services were to be held at Holland this afternoon for George Thomas Howell, 65, who died at 1:45 a.m. Sunday at his home in Holy Neck district. The rites were to be conducted by the Rev. Carl R. Key and the Rev. Dr. N.G. Newman. Active pallbearers were Lozza and Rufus Byrd, Harvey Holland, Claude Bracey, David Howell and Barnes Ellis. Mr. Howell is survived by a son, J.T. Howell, and two step-daughters, Mrs. Nellie Rawles and Mrs. Eula Dunford, of Portsmouth. George Thomas "Tom" HOWELL, farmer, b. ca. 1870, Nansemond Co.*, d. 6 Mar 1937, at home, Nansemond Co., interred in the family cemetery*, 8 Mar 1937, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 14, No. 295, Mon., Mar. 8, 1937, p. 6 *Additional information: Site not known (Jul 2024) to Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project. D.Cert. 7801 (Holy Neck #5) gives son of William T. & Lucy HOWELL. He m. Ella C. (HOLLAND; widow of Jacob E.) HOLLAND 14 Dec 1905. (Nansemond Co. #222) They appear in the 1910 Census - Holy Neck Dist., Nansemond Co. - on Owned Free Farm #218; it gives George & his parents as b. in NC. They appear in the 1920 Census - Holy Neck Dist., Nansemond Co. - on Farm #79 on Holland Rd. They appear in the 1930 Census - Holy Neck Dist., Nansemond Co. - on Farm #57. Ella's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," July 10, 1935, p. 6) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h400e10o.txt Their son "Jake" Jacob Thomas HOWELL (1906 - 1957) is buried in the Holland Municipal Cemetery. Holland list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holland.txt Ella's parents Solomon Cyrus & Mary Virginia (HOLLAND) HOLLAND are buried in a HOLLAND family cemetery, near Holland. Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (NV-I-37), another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h400t3ob.txt