Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Mary E.(Mrs. Dempsey) June 1, 1873 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Karen Johnston mmevlad@charter.net November 1, 2013, 4:31 pm Arkansas Gazette, published 06/03/1873 "Richmond, June 2 Specials from Suffolk, Nansemond County, VA state that Mrs. Dempsey Jones and her sister, Mrs. Dosier, living nine miles from that place, were murdered yesterday and the house plundered, while Mr. Jones and his children were at Sunday-school. There is no clue to the murderers, and the citizens are hunting them." Additional Comments: These two ladies were in the 1870 U.S. census at Cypress Chapel, Nansemond Co., VA. The head of household was Dempsey Jones, age 65, born VA. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/j/jones3752gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb