Nansemond County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wilroy, Jessie Brinkley, 1934 

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JESSIE BRINKLEY WILROY 

   Mrs. Jessie Brinkley Wilroy, widow of the late John F. Wilroy of 
Portsmouth, died at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Amos P. Pope 
of Drewryville, May 26, in her 42nd year.  Mr. Wilroy died April 19, 
1934, and Mrs. Wilroy had been spending a few weeks in Drewryville 
on a visit with relatives since the death of her husband.  She was a 
native of Nansemond County [sic*], and is survived by three children, 
Misses Jessie and Frances Wilroy and John F. Wilroy, Jr. of Portsmouth; 
her mother, Mrs. Helen M. Brinkley of Nansemond County; one sister and 
five brothers.

   Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the 
family burial plot in Cedar Hill Cemetery, conducted by Dr. I.W. Johnson 
of Suffolk, assisted by Rev. R.L. Haga of Boykins.


Jessie (BRINKLEY; Mrs. John F.) WILROY, of Portsmouth, 
b. Mar 1892, d. 26 May 1934, Drewryville, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (umarked*), Suffolk, 28 May 1934, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 1, 1934, p. 10 

*Additional information: 

Jessie & her husband were 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 Williams & Helen Madora (REDD) BRINKLEY, are buried in 
   Block L, Lot 5.  Cedar Hill list for BRINKLEY: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 13144 (Drewryville #8), which gives b. Norfolk, 
   and her parents b. Nansemond Co.  It gives bu. Suffolk, but the cemetery 
   is not specified. 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 20, 1934) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/w460j1ob.txt 

Her sister-in-law Grace (WILROY; Mrs. Amos P.) POPE, is buried in 
   Thomas Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery, Drewryville. 
   SCHS} Cemetery Project, Drewryville list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/drewryvl.txt 

Grace's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Apr. 5, 1966, p. 18) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p100g2ob.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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