Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Saunders, Maggie A. Holland, 1946 

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Mrs. M. A. Saunders Dies in County 

  Mrs. Maggie Amelia [sic; Arline] Saunders, widow of Hobday Lee Saunders, 
died today at the home of her son H.L. Saunders, Nansemond County, after a 
long illness. 

  She was the daughter of the late Thomas F. and Martha Holland, of Nansemond 
County.  Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Hurley P. Roberts, Windsor, and 
Mrs. Beverly S. Davenport, Newport News; five sons, Irvin C. Wilkins, Hilton 
Village; Delmas H. Saunders, Baltimore, Md.; Richard Lee Saunders, Trujillo, 
Haiti, and Thomas W. and H.L. Saunders, of Windsor; 13 grandchildren, three 
great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews. 

  The body was taken to the Hill Funeral Home, where services will be 
conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday by Rev. R.E. Brittle and Rev. W.T. Ratchford. 
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 


"Maggie" Margaret Arline (HOLLAND WILKINS; Mrs. Hobday Lee) SAUNDERS, 
b. 1 Oct 1876, Nansemond Co., d. 25 Oct 1946, Nansemond Co., 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 4*), Suffolk, 27 Oct 1946, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 24, No. 180, Fri., Oct. 25, 1946, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_s.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Jack Gray - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #123030864. 

D.Cert. 22422 (Chuckatuck #2) also gives Maggie Amelia. 

Her parents are buried in Bethlehem Christian Church Cemetery, as are 
   her first husband, Irvin C. WILKINS (1868 - 1898), & his parents. 

Her sons Thomas W. and Hobday L. SAUNDERS, Jr., owned & operated White Oaks 
   Tavern on US 460 near the Isle of Wight Co. line.  Thomas shot & killed 
   Clarence Hardy RHODES there 2 Nov 1946.  He was tried & acquitted the 
   following June.  Articles ("Smithfield Times" & "Suffolk News-Herald") 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/news/19461113st.txt 


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