Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Rogers, Emaline Riddick, 1897 

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ONE BY ONE THEY GO. 

  With ghostlike silence and as inevitable as eternity itself the grim reaper 
garners in his hosts.  Another good lady is gone.  About 6 o'clock last 
evening, at her residence on Holladay street, Mrs. Emeline [sic; Emaline] 
Rogers, relict of Phillip [sic; Philip] Rogers, deceased, changed her 
existence from the mortal to the immortal.  Mrs. Rogers had been sick only 
five days.  She was attacked with grip last Sunday.  Deceased was sixty-six 
years old. 

THE FUNERAL SATURDAY. 

  The funeral comes off at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning from the Christian 
church.  Rev. W.W. Staley will officiate.  The deceased was a member of the 
Cypress Chapel Christian church, near her former home in the county.  These 
will be pall-bearers: Colonel Thomas W. Smith, Dr. A.W. Eley, Colonel J.H. 
Macleary, W.H. Jones, Jr., William Eley, and O.S. Smith. 

HER HUSBAND A PATRIOT. 

  The husband of the deceased has been dead more than thirty years.  He laid 
down his life in defense of the Confederacy.  Mrs. Rogers was a sister of Mrs. 
George T. Parker, of Suffolk; Mrs. Dempsey Langston, of Lower Parish and Dr. 
R.E. Riddick, of the county.  She leaves two children - Mrs. George W. Truitt, 
of Suffolk, and Edward Rogers of Nansemond county. 


Emaline (RIDDICK; Mrs. Philip) ROGERS, 
b. ca. 1831, VA, d. 26 Feb 1897, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery*, 28 Feb 1897, 
"Norfolk Virginian," Vol. 53, No. 84, Sat., Feb. 27, 1897, p. 6 

*Additional information: 

Unmarked?  Added to Cypress Chapel list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cypress.txt 

Her husband served as 2d Corporal in the 16th VA Infantry, Co. B.  He was 
   wounded & captured at Gettysburg, and transported to Ft. Delaware, NJ, 
   where he d. 12 Oct 1863.  He was buried at Finn's Point, NJ. 

He has a cenotaph in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block D, Lot 75, owned 
   by his son-in-law, George William TRUITT, & George's brother Irving. 
   Cedar Hill list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 

Emaline applied for a Confederate widow's pension 7 Jul 1888 in Nansemond Co. 

Her brother, Dr. Robert Edward RIDDICK (1845 - 1907) was also a Confederate 
   veteran, having served as a private in the 3rd VA Infantry, Co. F. 
   He is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block G, Lot 26. 

Their parents, Edward Cunningham & Eunice Catherine (PIERCE) RIDDICK, 
   are also buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery - Block C, Lot 66, owned by 
   George T. PARKER. 


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