Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sumner, Elila L. Cross, 1955 

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Rites Held Saturday For Mrs. Elila Sumner 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Elila Cross Sumner were conducted yesterday at 
4 p.m. at the Hill Funeral Home by the Reverend R.E. Brittle, pastor of the 
Bethlehem Christian Church, and the Reverend Robert P. Chappell, pastor of 
the South Quay Baptist Church.  Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery [sic*]. 

  Mrs. Webb Pinner accompanied Mills Luter, Harvey Harrell, Jessie Mizelle and 
Paul Parker as they sang "Where We Never Grow Old" and "Sweet By and By."  The 
pall was of pink and white roses. 

  Pallbearers were Dr. E.C. Joyner, Dr. L.H. Rawls, Jr., Robert D. March, Jr., 
Arthur Wilkinson, Clyde Howell, Obid [sic; Obie] Duke, Warren Austin and 
Clifford Austin. 


Elila L. (CROSS; Mrs. Dempsey Lawrence) SUMNER, 
b. 31 Oct 1870*, Southampton Co., d. 6 Oct 1955, Suffolk, 
interred in Bethlehem Christian Church Cemetery*, Suffolk, 8 Oct 1955, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 33, No. 229, Sun., Oct. 9, 1955, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

She shares a stone with her husband & their daughter Helen. 
   Bethlehem list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/bethchr.txt 

Photos of her gravestone - added by Budjr & Ken Campbell - 
   are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #111672490; it shows b. 1872. 

D.Cert. 22903 (Suffolk #58) 

Her father John Obid "Oby" CROSS was a Confederate veteran, having served as 
   a private in Co. A, 13th VA Cavalry.  He & Carolyn V. DAUGHTREY m. 29 Jan 
   1857 in Southampton Co.  (M.Reg. p. 4 #3) 


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