Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Annette L. Brothers, 1945 

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ANNETTE NETTIE LEE BROTHERS JONES

MRS. JONES, 78, SUFFOLK, DIES

   Suffolk, Feb. 1 - Mrs. Annette Nettie Lee Brothers Jones, widow of William 
Thomas Jones and daughter of the late William Riddick Brothers and Martha Sarah 
Brinkley Brothers, died today at 10 a.m. at Lakeview Hospital after having been 
in feeble health for many years. She was in her seventy-ninth year. She had 
spent her entire life in Suffolk and Nansemond County.

   Mrs. Jones was a member of several old and prominent families of Nansemond 
County. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Capt. William Eley Brinkley, 
who commanded North Carolina troops during the American Revolution, and also the 
great-great-granddaughter of Solomon Riddick. She was a descendant of John 
Brothers, who received a land grant from the King of England in 1699. Members of 
the family still live on the site. She also was a descendant of Col. William 
Eley and Christopher Norfleet.

   In 1857 her father was brutally attacked by two former slaves and a white man 
who sought a sum of money they knew to be in the house. The three cut off one of 
his hands and hacked and crushed his chest and threw him out in the yard for 
dead. Although he revived, he never regained his health.

   Mrs. Jones was educated at Miss Mollie Brennan’s school and the Misses 
Finney’s Suffolk Female Institute, and was a former active member of the Cypress 
Chapel Christian Church.

   She is survived by the following children: Ernest E. Jones, Miss Martha B. 
Jones and William B. Jones; four grandchildren, Mrs. L. H. Rawls, Jr., Misses 
Betty, Annette and Sarah Ann Jones, and one great grandchild, L.H. Rawls, 3d; 
one sister, Mrs. W.E. MacClenny, and two brothers, W.E. Brothers and Lyman R. 
Brothers, and several nieces and nephews, all of Suffolk.

   Funeral services will be conducted at the home, 138 Brewer Avenue, Friday at 
4 p.m. with Dr. John G. Truitt, of Suffolk Christian Church, and the Rev. R.E. 
Brittle, of Cypress Christian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Hill 
Cemetery.


[Annette "Nettie" Lee (BROTHERS; Mrs. William T.) JONES, 
 lifelong Nansemond/Suffolk resident, d. 1 Feb 1945, Suffolk, age 78, 
 interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, 2 Feb 1945, 
 donated obit, dateline Feb. 1, 1945] 

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