Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beckham, Martha Adams December 6, 1953
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Daily News Leader (Staunton, VA) December 7, 1953
Mrs. Martha Adams Beckham, widow of Lewis Allen Beckham, died Sunday morning at 
8:45 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry B. Baylor, College Park Drive. Mrs. 
Beckham had been in declining health for several years and seriously ill for a 
month. She was born in York County, Oct. 19, 1865, a daughter of the late 
William and Elizabeth Crafford Adams. Mrs. Beckham had been a resident of 
Staunton since 1914 and was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Henry B. Baylor of Staunton, and Mrs. 
Raynor Gimbal of Piedmont, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Harry Foster of Baltimore, 
and Mrs. Richard L. Sturgis of Rockhill, S.C.; and a brother, Samuel H. Adams of 
Newport News.
Funeral services were held this afternoon at 3:30 at the home of her daughter, 
Mrs. Baylor, College Park Drive, conducted by the Rev. J. Lewis Gibbs, D.D., 
rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Interment will be Tuesday afternoon at one-thirty in Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk.
Pallbearers were: Maj. F. M. Sizer, Benjamin G. Cleveland, Page G. Wilson, Frank 
S. Black, J. E. Runnels Jr., General E. Walton Opie, Harold F. Salchow, Robert 
E. Holsinger, Thomas W. Dixon, Charles L. Bowman and Dr. John H. Guss.


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