Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Nurney, Susie B., 1901 

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SUSIE BARTLETT NURNEY

Death Loves a Shining Mark

   Mention was made in the HERALD last week of the serious illness of Miss Susie 
Bartlett Nurney, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Nurney. For days and 
nights, with alternating hopes and fears, the fond parents waited and watched 
and prayed, and large numbers of relatives and friends were sympathetically 
solicitous for the recovery of this lovable young lady, but on Saturday, March 
23, 1901, about 10 o’clock p.m., the angel Azrael entered her chamber and 
performed his mission, and

     "Death lay upon her, like an untimely frost/ 
      Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."

   Pneumonia was the fatal disease, and she had been suffering for twelve days.

   The deceased was in the seventeenth year of her age, and was born and raised 
in Suffolk. She was a loving and beloved daughter, sister, and friend, and not 
only from the family circle does there go out the intense longing "for the touch 
of a vanished had, and the sound of a voice that is still," but that feeling 
finds an echo in the hearts of the many friends of this universal favorite who 
has fallen on sleep.

   Beautiful in form and feature, she was also beautiful in those graces and 
virtues that constitute Christian young womanhood, which made her a favorite 
with all who knew her. Appreciating the solicitude and kindness of her friends, 
a few days before her death she asked a young lady schoolmate to write notes of 
thanks to those who had sent flowers to cheer her, when the donors could not be 
admitted to see her. For some years she had been a member of the Christian 
church, and her life was such that her loved ones have the comforting assurance 
that "it is well with her soul."

     "Come, let the burial rite be read,/ The funeral song be sung;/ 
      An anthem for the queenliest dead/ That ever died so young - / 
      A dirge for her the doubly dead/ In that she died so young.?"

   The funeral took place at the Christian church at 11 o’clock on Monday 
morning, and was largely attended. The services were conducted by Rev. W.W. 
Staley, D.D., the pastor, assisted by Rev. R.H. Potts, of the Main Street 
Methodist Church. The students of Suffolk College, where the deceased attended 
school, were present in a body to pay the last tribute of respect to their 
beloved schoolmate. The services at the church concluded with the rendition by 
the choir of "The Christian’s Good-Night," which the deceased had sung on her 
death-bed.

   The remains were interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, the pall-bearers being as 
follows: Active - W.S. Beamon, Lewis Brothers, A.S.H. Burgess, Chas. P. Cramer, 
A.H. Hargrave, F.A. Holladay, T.O. Palmer, Dr. F.W. Whitehead. Honorary - Ashton 
Applewhite, B.R. Britt, Ernest R. Burks, Willie H. Butler, Harry Darden, Ellis 
Ivey, Clifford Jones, Wesley Lloyd, Clyde Rogers, James Twitty, M.M. Urquhart, 
Jr.

   The floral offerings were elaborate and handsome, there being contributions 
from her Sunday School Class, the Christian Endeavor Society, students of 
Suffolk College, Sunbeam Circle of King’s Daughters, and from numbers of 
personal friends.

   As the stricken ones mourn under this affliction may they be comforted by 
what the Master hath said: "What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know 
hereafter."


[Susie Bartlett NURNEY, d. 23 Mar 1901, age 17, 
 interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, 25 Mar 1901, 
 "The Suffolk (VA) News Herald"] 

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