Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Quimby, Mary W. Jordan, 1969 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MRS. MARY J. QUIMBY Mrs. Mary Jordan Quimby, 87, a resident of 250 N. Main Street, died in a Peninsula hospital at 12:30 a.m. Saturday. A native of Smithfield [sic*], she was the daughter of the late Louis Walton (Bish) Jordan and Mrs. Emma Hall Jordan and the widow of E.M.C. Quimby. She was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Harvey M. Holland at Suffolk; and a grandson, E.M.C. Quimby III of Richmond. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the graveside in Cedar Hill Cemetery, conducted by the Rev. James H. Newsom Jr., rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The family will be at 250 N. Main St. The body will remain at R.W. Baker & Company Funeral Home until 1:30 p.m. Mary Wrenn (JORDAN; Mrs. Edwin Morton Coates Sr.) QUIMBY, b. 28 Jan 1881, Suffolk*, d. 17 May 1969, Newport News, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 60*), Suffolk, 19 May 1969, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 47, No. 118, Sun., May 18, 1969, p. 8 *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 Mary - added by August - & one of her gravestone - added by Allison Stec Bell - are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #77090512. Her parents are buried in Block F, Lot 116: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_g.txt D.Cert. 69-013668 gives b. VA. The Nansemond Co. M.Reg. (1905 #82) gives b. Suffolk. Her parents were living 8 Jun 1880 at 115 Granby St., Norfolk, in the boarding house of Mary's paternal aunt Alida A. JORDAN. Her father was a Confederate veteran, having served as a private in Co. A, 19th Battalion Virginia Heavy Artillery. His obits ("Virginian-Pilot," Jan. 31, 1900 & Feb. 1 & 2, 19008) are posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/j365l1ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/q510m1ob.txt