Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Amy H., 1916 

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AMY HASLETT SMITH

   Suffolk, Va. , Aug. 12 - Miss Amy Haslett Smith, daughter of the late 
Oliver H. Smith, of Somerton, VA., and Mrs. Laura Smith of Suffolk, died this 
morning at a local hospital, at 3 o’clock in the 25th year of her age.  Miss 
Smith, who was one of the most popular young business women of the city, was 
stricken with typhoid fever two weeks ago, and had been critically ill from 
the first.

   She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Laura Smith, one sister, Miss Ella 
Mary Smith, and a brother, Richard Leonard Smith, and two nieces Louise and 
Eliza Smith, all of Suffolk, and a number of relatives in the county.

   She was a member of Oxford M.E. Church, and took an active part in all 
branches of the church work, especially in the women’s societies.

   The funeral will be held at Oxford M.E. Church, Sunday afternoon at 4:30 
o’clock, conducted by Rev. Dr. J.T. Bosman, assisted by Rev. Dr. I.W. Johnson. 
Interment will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

   The pall-bearers will be: Active - C.F. McKay, S.P. Hill, J.T. Freeman, 
J.E. Hines, J.P. Cross, F. Lloyd, E. E. Jones, A. B. Ballard.  Honorary - H.B. 
Cross, Dr. H.W. Campbell, Dr. J.E. Rawles, R.L. Brewer, J.C. West, George 
Lawshe, H.S. Eley and D.T. Johnson.


Amy Haslett SMITH, bookkeeper, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 12 Aug 1916, Suffolk, age 25, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block H, Lot 59*), Suffolk, 13 Aug 1916, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Her parents are buried in the same lot. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_s.txt 

Her maternal grandfather, Joseph NORFLEET (1818-1887), is buried in a 
   NORFLEET family cemetery, on Longstreet Ln. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-48), 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 


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