Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Philhower, Sarah B. Stout, 1935 

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Mrs. Sarah Philhower, 102, Succumbs Today 

Lived In Nansemond County More Than 50 Years, 
   But For Past 20 Years Was Resident Of Wilmington 

  Mrs. Sarah B. Philhower, who celebrated her 102nd birthday on April 1, died 
at the home of her daughter at Wilmington, Del., today. 

  A resident of Nansemond county for more than a half-century, Mrs. Philhower 
has lived at Wilmington for the past 20 years. 

HAD 100th PARTY 

  On the occasion of her one hundreth birthday two years ago, her four sons in 
Virginia attended the birthday party in Delaware. 

  Mrs. Philhower's death was believed due, in addition to , her advanced age, 
to grief over the death this month of two of her five sons.  James B. 
Philhower, 82, of Suffolk, eldest of her sons, died August 5 from injuries 
sustained when he fell from a ladder while taking measurements for a second-
story addition to his Cedar street residence. 

  Luther Philhower, of Wilmington, a cripple and constant companion of his 
mother, died two weeks ago. 

MARRIED AFTER WAR [sic*] 

  Born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, April 1, 1833, the centenarian was 
married just after the Civil War to Jacob Philhower and the couple came south, 
settling at Magnolia, Nansemond county, where they became well-to-do farmers. 

  Surviving Mrs. Philhower, are her only daughter, Mrs. Mary Ella McAllister, 
Wilmington, Del., and three sons, George S. Philhower, Magnolia; R.P. 
Philhower, Suffolk, and E.S. Philhower, Norfolk.  Also surviving are several 
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 

  J. Frank Culpepper, sheriff-elect of Nansemond county, is a great-
grandchild, as is Mrs. Wallace H. Walton and James Philhower, Jr. 

  Funeral services will be held at Wilmington Monday, after which the body 
will be conveyed to Suffolk for burial in the family plot at Cedar Hill 
cemetery. 


Sarah Beavers (STOUT; Mrs. Jacob R.) PHILHOWER, 
b. 1 Apr 1833, Hunterdon Co., NJ, d. 31 Aug 1935, Wilmington, DE, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block D, Lot 68*), Suffolk, 2 Sep 1935, 
"Suffolk News-Herald," Vol. 13, No. 139, Sat., Aug. 31, 1935, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of her gravestone - added by Jake Dog - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #84426790. 

The 1900 Census - Cypress Dist., Nansemond Co. - gives m. 48 years; 6 of 7 
   children surviving.  Son James was b. in 1853. 

Her parents, Elijah & Mary (BEAVERS) STOUT, are buried in Evergreen Cemetery, 
   Clinton, Hunterdon Co., NJ. 


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