Nansemond-Henrico County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Rickard, Jennie T. Covington, 1948 

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JENNIE T. COVINGTON RICKARD 

Former Suffolk Resident Is Dead 

  Mrs. Jenny Covington Rickard, formerly of Suffolk, died this morning at her 
home in Richmond after an illness of six months. 

  She is survived by her husband, W.S. Richark [sic; Rickard] of Richmond; a 
daughter, Mrs. Lohman Reiter of Green Bay, Wisconsin; two sisters, Miss Fanny 
Covington of Norfolk and Mrs. Emmett Beale of Franklin; a brother, John R. 
Covington of Suffolk; two grandchildren; three cousins, Mrs. Henry S. Eley, 
Mrs. J.M. Hitch and Mrs. George Smith, all of Suffolk. 

  She was a life long member of the Suffolk Main Street Methodist Church, a 
member of the Silver Cross Circle of the Suffolk King's Daughters and of the 
Daughters of the Confederacy of Richmond. 

  The body will be brought here Saturday for funeral services Saturday 
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Main Street Methodist Church. 

  Burial will follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

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MRS. JENNIE C. RICKARD 

   Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Covington Rickard, wife of W.S. Rickard, 
who died at her home in Richmond of Thursday, December 16, were conducted at 
the Main Street Methodist Church, Suffolk, Saturday afternoon at two o'clock 
with the pastor, Rev. John H. Blakemore, officiating.  Burial was in Cedar 
Hill Cemetery, Suffolk. 

   Mrs. Rickard, who spent a large part of her life in Suffolk, was a member 
of the Main Street Methodist Church, a teacher in the Sunday School, and a 
member of Silver Cross Circle of King's Daughters.  A daughter of the late 
Albert B. Covington, a prominent North Carolina lumber dealer, and Mrs. Jennie 
Twilley Covington of Pocomoke City, Md., she came from a long line of 
prominent Methodists.  Her grandfather, Rev. George Covington, was one of the 
early circuit riders of the Eastern Shore. 

   Surviving in addition to her husband, are a daughter, Mrs. Lohman Dale 
Reiter of Green Bay, Wis.; two grandchildren, Lohman and Ellen Twilley Reiter; 
two sisters, Mrs. Emmett B. Beale of Franklin and Miss Fannie Covington of 
Norfolk; and a brother, John R. Covington of Suffolk.  She also leaves three 
cousins in Suffolk, Mrs. Henry Eley, Mrs. J.M. Hitch and Mrs. George Smith. 


Jennie T. (COVINGTON; Mrs. Will Solace) RICKARD, 
b. 1 Oct 1885, Quantico, MD, 
d. 16 Dec 1948, at home, 2815 Parkside Ave., Henrico Co., 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G. Lot 67*), Suffolk, 8 Sep 1966, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 25, No. 216, Thurs., Dec. 16, 1948, p. 1; 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 44, No. 10, Thurs., Dec. 23, 1948, p. 5 

*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 Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #193102998. 

Her father (1852 - 1928) & a step-mother are buried in the same lot: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

D.Cert. 27889 (Brookland #52) 

Her husband (1880 - 1958) remarried in 1950.  He is buried in Woodlawn 
   Cemetery, Allouez, Brown Co., WI. 


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