Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Sarah O. Lee, 1897 

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Sarah Otelia LEE HOLLAND 

TOWN OF SUFFOLK 
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         Suffolk, Va., July 16, 1897.
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        HERE AND THERE. 

  Mrs. E. E. Holland, wife of Nansemond's State's Attorney, is reported 
dying at 10 o'clock to-night.  Her condition is critical in the extreme. 
Her physicians, though, say there is a faint chance to save her. 

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TOWN OF SUFFOLK 

MRS. HALLAND DEAD [sic] 

She Passed Away Yesterday Afternoon as the Sun Was Setting. 
[...] 

  Suffolk, Va., July 17. - (Special.) - Mrs. E.E. Holland is dead.  Her spirit 
was wafted away this afternoon just as the sun was getting behind the trees 
and church steeples over in the West.  The death angel swooped down and 
claimed as his own one of the purest, noblest, and most beloved ladies in 
Suffolk - a wife, devoted and true, an affectionate mother, a congenial friend 
- a zealous Christian woman. 

  Mrs. Sarah Otelia Holland breathed her last about 5:25 o'clock this 
afternoon at No. 26 Bank street.  She had been on the very threshold of 
another world all day.  In fact she was reported dead on the streets several 
times before noon.  Mrs. Holland had been ill for a month or more, but not 
until this week was her condition taken as critical.  Ever since last night 
she had been practically dying, though she was strong enough to-day to kiss 
her husband a long and tender farewell.  The funeral will take place at 10 
o'clock Monday morning from the Christian church.  Dr. W.W. Staley will preach 
the sermon.  The Interment will be in Cedar Hill. 

        HER RELATIVES. 

  The deceased was the wife of Hon. E.E. Holland, president of the Farmers' 
Bank, and States Attorney of Nansemond, to whom she was married about thirteen 
years ago.  Mrs. Holland's father is Major Patrick Henry Lee, who still lives. 
She leaves two children - Pretlow and Bessie.  She was the sister of Willis J. 
Lee, of Nansemond; I.P. Lee, of Norfolk; A.T. Lee, of Augusta; Mrs. William M. 
Jones, of Norfolk; and Mrs. J.P. Gay, of Franklin.  She was a sister of A.J. 
Gardner's first wife.  Mrs. Holland was thirty-six years old.  Her body was 
embalmed tonight.

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TOWN OF SUFFOLK 
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Mrs. Holland Buried [...] 

  Suffolk, Va., July 19. - (Special.) - [...] 

    LAID UNDER THE GRASS. 

  The funeral of the late Mrs. E.E. Holland took place this morning at 10 
o'clock from the Christian church.  It was largely attended.  The floral 
offerings were beautiful and varied in design.  The local supply was exhausted 
and orders had to be sent to florists in outside cities.  The services were of 
a very impressive order.  Dr. W.W. Staley preached the funeral.  He was 
assisted by Revs. J.F. Love, W.J. Laine and N.G. Newman. 

  At the conclusion the funeral cortege moved toward Cedar Hill in solemn 
procession.  There the remains were laid away beneath the sod.  The pall-
bearers were: Dr. H.W. Campbell, H.E. Smith, G.W. Nurney, W.W. Eley, John B. 
Pinner, G.W. Truitt, W.F. Jones, Jr., and Otis S. Smith. 


Sarah Otelia (LEE; Mrs. Edward E.) HOLLAND, 
d. 17 Jul 1897, at home, Suffolk, age 36, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 116*), Suffolk, 19 Jul 1897, 
"The Norfolk Virginian," Vol. 54, No. 49, July 17, 1897, p. 6, col. 1-2; 
"The Norfolk Virginian," Vol. 54, No. 50, July 18, 1897, p. 6, col. 1; 
"The Norfolk Virginian," Vol. 54, No. 51, July 20, 1897, p. 6, col. 1 

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

*Her parents are buried in Holy Neck Christian Church Cemetery. 
   Holy Neck list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holynk.txt 

Her husband had previously been Mayor; he was later elected to the state 
   Senate, then Congress.  He remarried in 1920. 
   His obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Oct. 24, 1941) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h453e4ob.txt 


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