Nansemond County-Suffolk-Richmond City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Minton, Lillian K. Wills, 1981 

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LILLIAN WILLS MINTON

DESCENDANT OF COL. GODWIN DIES AT AGE 83

   Mrs. Lillian Wills Minton, a direct descendant of Col. Thomas Godwin, a 
speaker of the House of Burgesses in Colonial times, died yesterday in a local 
convalescent home.

   Mrs. Minton, 83, lived at 3907 Fauquier Ave.

   Her great-great-grandfather was Gen. John Scarsbrook Wills, a member of the 
1st Continental Congress.  Pembroke, built in 1701 on the Nansemond River, was 
the Godwin family estate and the family home of Mrs. Minton’s maternal 
grandfather, James E. Godwin. The Godwin family was granted land by the 
English crown in colonial times and settle at Cherry Grove in Chuckatuck Creek.

   Mrs. Minton was a lifelong member of Wesley Chapel Methodist Church in 
Chuckatuck.  She was a member of the Red Cross during World War I.

   She was the widow of Mills Daniel Minton.  She is survived by a sister, 
Marguerite Wills Phelps of Washington.

   A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Forest Lawn Cemetery.


Lillian Kirby (WILLS; Mrs. Mills D.) MINTON, 
b. 3 Mar 1898, d. 22 Jun 1981, Ashland, Hanover Co.,* 
interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Richmond, 23 Jul 1986, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," June 25, 1981 

*Additional information from her Va. Death Certificate (#81-020624). 
   She was the daughter of Walter Albert & Lillian (GODWIN) WILLS. 

Her husband died 21 Sep 1956 (Va. D.Cert. #21362). 

They married 17 Apr 1922, in Nansemond Co. 
   (FamilySearch.org "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940") 


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