Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Raiford, Mary J., 1934 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MARY JANE RAIFORD Suffolk, Oct. 18 - Mary Jane Raiford, four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.F. Raiford, of Box Elder, Nansemond County, died at the Raiford Hospital, Franklin, last night at 11 o’clock, after an illness of several weeks. Besides her parents, she is survived by a sister, Ann Raiford, and four brothers, E.F. Jr., Ernest J. and James P. Raiford, all of Nansemond County and Graham W. Raiford, of Green Bay, Va.; her maternal grandmother, Mrs. C.C. Copeland, of the county, and several uncles and aunts. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Friends’ Church, Box Elder, conducted by the Rev. A.E. Cloud, assisted by the Rev. Dr. N.G. Newman. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mary Jane RAIFORD, daughter of Edward F. Sr. & Ethel J. (COPELAND) RAIFORD, of Box Elder, d. 17 Oct 1934, Franklin, age 4, interred at Box Elder Friends' Meeting, 19 Oct 1934, marked in Somerton Friends' Meeting Cemetery*, donated obit, newspaper unknown *Buried with her father's first wife; her parents are buried on Fifth Row. Somerton Friends' list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/somefr.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/r163m2ob.txt