Nansemond County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wilroy, John F., 1934 

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JOHN F. WILROY

   Miss Marguerite Wilroy was called to Portsmouth this morning by the sudden 
death of her brother, John F. Wilroy, who died suddenly at his home in that 
city last night.  Mr. Wilroy, who was 52 years of age, was the son of the late 
John C. and Mrs. Katherine* Wilroy, prominent Nansemond County people, and is 
survived by his wife, Mrs. Jessie Brinkley Wilroy; a son, John F. Wilroy, Jr., 
and two daughters, Misses Jessie and Frances Wilroy, all of Portsmouth; three 
sisters, Mrs. Amos P. Pope of Drewryville, Mrs. Wallace White of Boykins and 
Miss Marguerite Wilroy of this town; four brothers, J. Carl Wilroy of Suffolk, 
Captain T.N. Wilroy of Calveston, Texas, L.H. and J.L. Wilroy of Chester, Penn.

   Arrangements for the funeral had not been completed this morning.


John Francis WILROY, farmer, 
b. 17 Nov 1881, Nansemond Co., d. 19 Apr 1934, at home, Portsmouth*, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (umarked*), Suffolk, 21 Apr 1934, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 20, 1934 

*Additional information: 

Place of death given as King St., West Haven, Norfolk Co., on 
   Bureau of Vital Statistics {BVS} D.Cert. 1934 1365-10153; 
   Westhaven is now part of the City of Portsmouth. 

Cemetery from death certificate; not given in obit. 

His widow d. 26 May 1934, in Drewryville, of Leukemia.  Her D.Cert. 
   gives only buried in Suffolk. 

Her obit ("Tidewater News," June 1, 1934, p. 10) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/w460j3ob.txt 

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

Her parents, Jesse Wm. & Helen M. (REDD) BRINKLEY, are buried in 
   Block L, Lot 5.  Cedar Hill list for BRINKLEY: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

His parents are buried in the WILROY family cemetery, off Sleepy Hole Rd. 
   (Rt. 629).  His mother's name was Catherine (CAPPS) WILROY.  
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3, 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol3.txt 

His widowed father 2m. Catherine's sis Rebecca; widowed, she 2m. Robert W. 
   BRINKLEY.  She is also buried there, as is their father, Francis M. CAPPS, 
   & John C's mother, Margaret F. WILROY.  
   

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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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