Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Norfleet, Sarah E. Riddick, 1910 

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SARAH ELIZABETH RIDDICK NORFLEET

DEAD AFTER LONG LIFE

   Suffolk, Va., June 9 - Mrs. Sarah Norfleet died shortly before 7 o’clock 
this evening at her home, 708 Bank Street.  She passed away as one falling 
asleep.  She had been an invalid several years.  Mrs. Norfleet was the mother 
of Mayor John Ballentine Norfleet, his twin brother, Robert J. Norfleet, and 
three daughters Mrs. W.W. Ballard, Mrs. Kate Brothers, and Miss Bessie 
Norfleet.  She also leaves eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 
The deceased was a native of Cypress Chapel and her maiden name was Riddick. 
Her husband Elisha Norfleet, died 41 years ago.  Mrs. Norfleet was a charter 
member of the Suffolk Christian Church in 1860, and she has been helpful to 
its spiritual welfare for half a century.  There are only two charter members 
left - William T. Duke and James A. Turrentine.  Mrs. Norfleet was nearly 77 
years.

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A GOOD WOMAN GONE TO REST

   Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Norfleet, An Aged Mother in Israel, 
   Well Beloved and Highly Honored, Peacefully Passes 
   to the Great Beyond at 6:45 o’clock Yesterday Evening. 

   Last night at 6:45 o’clock after years of patient suffering, Mrs. Sarah 
Elizabeth Norfleet, widow of Elisha Norfleet, died in the seventy-sixth year 
of her age.  Mrs. Norfleet was a charter member of the Christian Church at the 
time of its organization in 1860, and has been during this half century of 
membership, faithful, consistent and helpful, her pure and Christian life a 
source of strength and uplift to those with whom she was associated.  Left a 
widow many years ago she reared her family of sons and daughters to be men and 
women of high standing and worth in the community, whose devotion to their 
mother has been a matter of comment in the town.

   Mrs. Norfleet was Miss Riddick, a member of an old and prominent Nansemond 
family.  She is survived by her son, Mayor John B. Norfleet and his twin 
brother Robert J. Norfleet, and by three daughters, Mrs. Kate Brothers, Mrs. 
Walter W. Ballard, and Miss Bessie Norfleet, who has been her mother’s 
consistent companion and nurse during her years of invalidism.  She is also 
survived by eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.


Sarah Elizabeth (RIDDICK; Mrs. Elisha) NORFLEET, 
d. 9 Jun 1910, at home, Suffolk, age 76, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 110*), Suffolk, 
"The Norfolk (VA) Landmark," dateline June 9, 1910; 
"The Suffolk (VA) Herald," June 10, 1910 

*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 husband, his first wife, & children of both unions are buried in a 
   NORFLEET family cemetery, on White Marsh Rd. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. I, 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 

see also: 
   Norfleet, Fillmore. 
   "Elisha Norfleet, 1800-1869; his family and documents." 
      'His Nansemond County, Virginia. vol. 2.'
   Woodberry Forest, VA, 1959. (LVA Call Number F232.N18 N7 v.2)] 

File Manager's note - see also the following, for a portrait of Sarah, and 
   her eldest daughter, Alida, ca. 1854: 
   Norfleet, Fillmore. 
   "Suffolk in Virginia, c. 1795-1840 : a record of lots, lives, and 
   likenesses." 
   1974. (LVA Call Number F234.S9 N56). pp. 130-31, 135 (notes 150, 165). 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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