Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sawyer, Clara E. Mathews, 1942 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MRS. CLARA SAWYER Mrs. Clara Mathews Sawyer, daughter of the late W.T. and Julia Mathews, of Nansemond County, died in Richmond early this morning. Mrs. Sawyer was a former resident of Chuckatuck for a number of years. The body will arrive here tomorrow at 10 a.m. and will be taken to the R.W. Baker Funeral Home where it will remain until 2:30 p.m. Funeral services will be held at the grave in Wesley Chapel Cemetery at 3 p.m. by Dr. I.W. Johnson. Clara E. (MATHEWS; Mrs. Guy) SAWYER, of Richmond, formerly of Chuckatuck, b. 28 Sep 1887, Hobson, Nansemond Co., d. 7 Jul 1942, Richmond, interred in Wesley Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery*, 8 Jul 1942, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 20, No. 91, Tues., July 7, 1942, p. 8 *Her parents are also buried there. Wesley Chapel list (WC-19 & 13), an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/wesleych.txt Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 15107 (Richmond #1512) Her father was shot in the abdomen and died the same day after an operation, 25 Aug 1924. (D.Cert. 19002 {Suffolk #270}) Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/s600c2ob.txt