Nansemond-Isle of Wight-Amelia County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Nelms, Edna M. Bell, 1935 

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EDNA BELL NELMS

   Mrs. Edna Bell Nelms, age 57, died at her home 237 Chestnut Street at 1:15 
a.m. today, following a brief illness.

   Surviving Mrs. Nelms are her husband, Richard C. Nelms; a son Richard C. 
Nelms, Jr., five daughters, Mrs. T.J. Bagley, Mrs. J.E. Gayle, Mrs. W.R. Eley, 
Mrs. H.J. Manlove, all of Suffolk, and Mrs. W.B. Butler, of St. Petersburg, 
Fla., also a sister, Mrs. Ophelia Orange, of Richmond; eight grand children 
and several nieces and nephews.

   Funeral arrangements had not been completed early this afternoon.  Funeral 
services will be conducted at Main Street M.E. Church at 3:30 P.M. Saturday by 
Dr. George Wesley Jones.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

   Mrs. Nelms was active in the work of the Main Street church and in the 
Silver Cross circle of King’s Daughters.  Members of the Silver Cross circle 
will attend the rites in a body.


Edna Mae (BELL HARRELL; Mrs. Richard C. Sr.) NELMS, 
b. 4 Jul 1878, Rodophil, Amelia Co., d. 31 May 1935, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block H, Lot 78*), Suffolk, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

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

Her first husband, James Edward HARRELL (1877 - 1898), is buried with his 
   parents in Block F, Lot 85: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_g.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 11983 (Suffolk #184) 

Her widower's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald," Sep. 8&9, 1957) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/n452r1ob.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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