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

************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

ANNETTE NETTIE LEE BROTHERS JONES

Mrs. Nettie L. Jones Dies After Long Illness 

Family Long A Prominent One 

  SUFFOLK, Feb. 1. - A member of one of Suffolk and Nansemond County's oldest 
families, Mrs. Annette Lee Brothers Jones. 79, died at 10 o'clock this morning 
at Lakeview Hospital after many years of feeble illness. 

  Mrs. Jones was the widow of William Thomas Jones, formerly of Nansemond 
County, and daughter of the late William Riddick Brothers and Martha Sarah 
Brinkley Brothers. 

  She was descendant of John Brothers, who received a land grant from the King 
in 1699, and upon which several members of her family still reside.  She was 
also descendant of Colonel William Eley and Christopher Eley Brinkley, who 
commanded North Carolina troops against the British during the American 
Revolution, and a great-great granddaughter of Solomon Riddick. 

  Mrs. Jones was educated at Miss Mollie Brenan's School and Misses Finney's 
Suffolk Female Institute.  A former active member of the Cypress Chapel 
Christian Church, she also was a great lover of flowers. 

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

****************************************************************************** 

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.


"Nettie" Annette Lee (BROTHERS; Mrs. William Thomas) JONES, 
lifelong Nansemond/Suffolk resident, d. 1 Feb 1945, Suffolk, age 78, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block H, Lot 94*), Suffolk, 2 Feb 1945, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 167, Thurs., Feb. 1, 1945, p. 8; 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of her gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #134953656. 

D.Cert. 3301 (Suffolk #39) gives age 78 years, 7 months, 12 days. 

Her parents are buried in Block E, Lot 46: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

Newspaper articles on the trials of the three accused in the assault 
   on her father are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/news/10161857dd 

Her husband is buried in a JONES family cemetery near Cypress Chapel. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (NV-I-39), 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 

His obit ("Norfolk Landmark," Jan. 14, 1898, p. 6) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/j520w17o.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/j520a1ob.txt