Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pruden, Mary V., 1956 

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MARY VIRGINIA PRUDEN 

MISS MARY PRUDEN BURIED SUNDAY IN FAMILY CEMETERY 

  Miss Mary Virginia Pruden, 61 of Route 4, Nansemond County died Thursday 
night, January 2, 1956, at the University of Virginia Hospital, 
Charlottesville, after an illness.

  A daughter of the late Charles Nathaniel Pruden and Lula Riddick* Pruden, 
of Nansemond County, she was a member of the Suffolk Christian Church.

  She is survived by two brothers, J.A. Pruden of Suffolk and Thomas 
Eugene Pruden of Chuckatuck.

  Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Hill Funeral 
Home by Dr. H.G. Hardcastle, pastor of Oakland Christian Church and the 
Rev. Casey D. Allen, pastor of the Suffolk Christian Church.  Burial was 
in the family cemetery in Nansemond County.


Mary Virginia PRUDEN, of Nansemond Co., 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 26 Jan 1956, Charlottesville, age 61, 
interred in the family cemetery, Nansemond Co., 31 Jan 1956, 
marked in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 31, No. 36, Feb. 2, 1956, p. 6 

*Additional information: 

She is marked with her parents & paternal grandparents in Holly Lawn Cemetery, 
   Suffolk.  Holly Lawn list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

Her stone is wrong, showing: 
   MARY V. PRUDEN 
   NOV. 20, 1894 
   JAN. 26, 1958  (Find a Grave Mem. #167130149) 

The 1900 Census (Chuckatuck, Nan.Co.) gives b. May 1892. 

Her D.CERT. (1476 {Charlottesville #53}) gives b. 25 Nov 1894, d. 26 Jan 1956; 
   dt/o Charles Nathaniel and Lula Riddick Pruden; 
   bu. Family Burying Ground, Suffolk. 

Her surviving brothers are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk. 
   Cedar Hill list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 

James' D.Cert. (76-004475) also gives their mother as Lula Riddick. 
   Thomas' D.Cert. (82-011343) gives their mother as Lula Russell. 
   They married sisters Grace V. & A. Marie OLIVER. 

Their mother's D.Cert. gives Lulie S. Pruden, daughter of Shepard & 
   Fannie (Riddick) Pruden, b. Sunbury, Gates Co., NC. 

However, she seems identical with a daughter of Wm.B.S. & {1wf} Fannie 
   (ALPHIN) RIDDICK.  The 1860 Census gives Julia, age 2; 1870, Elalia, 10; 
   1880, Eulalia S., 21.  (Hunter's Mill, Gates Co., NC) 

Her sis Sallie A. RIDDICK (1855-1915) m. ca. 1873 Benjamin F. RUSSELL.  She 
   was buried in the home Graveyard, by L.M. Pierce, of Sunbury, NC. 

Her bro William B. RIDDICK (1867-1940) is buried in Parker's Methodist Church 
   Cemetery, Corapeake, Gates Co., NC.  (Find a Grave Mem. #101987429) 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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