Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bittle, Nancy A. Velvin, 1927 

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NANCY ANETTA VELVIN BITTLE

   Mrs. Nettie Velvin Bittle died last Tuesday in her 87th year in the 
home of her niece, Mrs. Nannie Hall, of this community.  She lived with her 
granddaughter, Mrs. W.R. Joyner, most of the time and had been away only a 
few weeks when she died.

   She was a member of old Peete’s church now the Drewryville M.E. Church. 
On account of defective sight she was confined to her home most of the time 
and was a woman of exceptional Christian character.

   She leaves four grandchildren to mourn their loss besides a number of 
relatives and friends.  Her grandchildren are: Mrs. W.R. Joyner of 
Drewryville; Richard Bittle of Petersburg; Allen Bittle, U.S.N., Newport, 
R.I., and Robert Bittle, U.S.A. Camp Meade, Maryland.

   She was buried at the old Beale burying ground Wednesday afternoon, R.A. 
Pope being in charge of the services in the absence of her Pastor.  Many 
relatives and friends were present.


Nancy Anetta "Nettie" (VELVIN; Mrs. John J.) BITTLE, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 22 Nov 1927, Drewryville*, age 87, 
interred in the BEALE family cemetery**, Peetes Church Rd., near Capron, 
   23 Nov 1927, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 25, 1927, p. 5 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (VIII-22): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 

*The text seems to suggest she died in Franklin, but her death is registered 
   in Drewryville Dist., and the address of attending physician James A. 
   Grizzard is Drewryville.  (source: Va. D.Cert. #25747). 

Further, her niece "Nannie" Nancy Elizabeth (BEALE) HALL appears in the 1930 
   Census on the Drewryville-Joyner Rd., Drewryville Dist. (e.d. 12).   

Her niece "Nannie" Nancy Elizabeth (BEALE) HALL is buried in a HALL family 
   cemetery, Rivers Mill Rd. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 5 (V-1): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

Her widowed son Robert Henry BITTLE drowned 26 May 1926, in Drewryville Dist., 
   Southampton Co., age 58 {b. 18 Aug 1867} (source: Va. D.Cert. #13357). 
   The burial & undertaker section is left blank, and the site is not known 
   to the SCHS Cemetery Project (Jul 2016).  He has been provisionally added 
   to the BEALE cemetery list (MV-VIII-22). 

Nettie's husband 1m. 12 May 1853 Susan E. RAWLINGS, in Sussex Co. 
   (FamilySearch.org "Virginia Marriages") 


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