Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Martin, Ethel L. Morgan, 1937 

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MRS. MARTIN DIES IN MAIN ST. HOME 

Succumbs This Morning After Illness Of One Week 

  Mrs. Stephen B. Martin, aged 37, died this morning at 7:55 o'clock at her 
residence, 424 N. Main street, after an illness of one week. 

  Mrs. Martin is survived by three children, two daughters, Misses Mary Louise 
and Anita Martin, of Suffolk, and Terry Martin, of Suffolk; her father, 
William [sic; Samuel] Morgan, of Morganton, N.C., one sister, Mrs. Buelah 
[sic; Beulah] Queen, of Morganton, N.C., two brothers, Bill Morgan, of 
Detroit, Mich., and Jeter Morgan, of Morganton, N.C., and her mother-in-law, 
Mrs. Mollie Martin of Atlanta, Ga. 

  The funeral service will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the 
I.O. Hill funeral home on West Washington street, conducted by Dr. George 
Wesley Jones, pastor of the Main Street Methodist church.  Interment in Cedar 
Hill cemetery. 

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ETHEL LEE MORGAN MARTIN 

  Suffolk, March 8 - Mrs. Ethel Lee Morgan Martin, 37, widow of Stephen B. 
Martin, died this morning at her home in North Main Street, following an 
attack of influenza.  Funeral services will be conducted at the funeral Home 
of I.O. Hill and Company Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Dr. George Wesley 
Jones, pastor of Main Street Methodist Church, assisted by the Rev. H.N. 
Tucker, rector of St. Paul's P.E. Church.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill 
Cemetery. 

  Mrs. Martin is survived by three children, Mary Louse, Anita and Terry 
Martin; her father, William [sic; Samuel*] Morgan[; two brothers, Bill 
Morgan], of Detroit, Mich., and Jeter Morgan of Old Fort, N.C.; a sister, 
Mrs. Beulah Owens of Morganton, and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Mollie Martin, 
of Atlanta, Ga. 

  She was a member of Main Street Methodist Church and had a wide circle of 
friends in this city. 


Ethel Lee (MORGAN; Mrs. Stephen Biggers) MARTIN, 
b. 13 Jul 1896*, McDowell Co., NC, d. 8 Mar 1937, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block C, Lot 98*), Suffolk, 17 Sep 1934, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 14, No. 295, Mon., Mar. 8, 1937, p. 6; 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Tues., Mar. 9, 1934, p. 14 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of her gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #134953685; it shows b. 13 Jul 1897. 

D.Cert. 6461 (Suffolk #67) 

The 1900 Census - Dysartsville, McDowell Co., NC - also gives b. Jul 1896. 

Her husband's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Jan. 21, 1930, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/m635s1ob.txt 

Her parents, Samuel Carpenter & Senia Louise (GARDNER) MORGAN, are buried in 
   Pinnacle Methodist Church Cemetery, Nebo, McDowell Co., NC. 


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