Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Miriam C. Byrd, 1967 

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MRS. MIRIAM B. JONES 

  Mrs. Miriam Byrd Jones, 80, died at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in a Chesapeake 
nursing home. 

  A native of Nansemond County, she was a daughter of Josephus and Mrs. 
Alice Copeland Byrd and the widow of Clyde Vernon Jones. 

  She was a member of Somerton Friends Meeting. 

  She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Odis Willis of Rocky Mount, N.C., 
and Mrs. D.F. Sibel of King of Prussia, Pa.; two sons, David J. Jones of 
Chesapeake and R. Ernest Jones of Nansemond County; two brothers, J. Leonard 
Byrd of Suffolk and Howard E. Byrd of Nansemond County; nine grandchildren; 
and a great-grandchild. 

  A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Somerton Friends 
Meeting House by the Rev. James A. Coney.  Burial will be in the Somerton 
Friends Cemetery. 

  The body will be taken from I.O. Hill & Company Funeral Home to the church 
at 1 p.m. 


Miriam Copeland (BYRD; Mrs. Clyde V.) JONES, 
b. 4 Nov 1886, Nansemond Co., d. 27 Jun 1967, Chesapeake, 
interred in Somerton Friends Meeting Cemetery*, 29 Jun 1967, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 45, No. 154, Wed., June 28, 1967, p. 12 

*Additional information: 

Somerton Friends list (N side, 1st row), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/somefr.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Jake Dog - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #65686935. 

D.Cert. 67-015307 

Her parents, Josephus & Alice Ophelia (COPELAND) BYRD, are buried in 
   Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block N, Lot 7. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 


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