Southampton-Hanover County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beale, Lillian Johnson, 1955 

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LILLIAN JOHNSON BEALE

MRS. LILLIAN J. BEALE

   Mrs. Lillian Johnson Beale, 77, long-time resident of Southampton County, 
died at her home near Handsom on Saturday night, January 1, at 8:30 o'clock 
after a brief illness. 

   The deceased was the widow of William E. Beale of Handsom and the daughter 
of the late Benjamin Franklin and Barbara Overton Terrell Johnson of Hanover 
County. She was  a member of St. Martin's Episcopal Church, Hanover County. 

   Surviving are a daughter Miss [torn] of Handsom and a brother, J.Z. Johnson 
of Beaverdam. 

   Services were conducted at the late residence on Monday afternoon at 2:30 
o'clock by Rev. John A. Winslow, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 
Suffolk, followed by burial in the family cemetery. 

   Pallbearers were Walter Bishop, Roswell Hart, Bernard E. Johnson of Hanover 
County, Col. C.F. Johnson of Arlington, J.Z. Johnson, Jr. and Dr. R. Terrell 
Johnson of Hanover County, R.S. Tatum of Suffolk and Frank Walton of 
Lawrenceville. 

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MRS. W.E. BEALE

   Mrs. Lillian Johnson Beale, 77, wife of the late William E. Beale, died at 
her home near Handsom on Saturday, January 1, at 8:30 p.m.  It was there she 
had spent all of her life after her marriage to Mr. Beale in the fall of 1903. 

   A native of Hanover County she was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin and 
Mrs. Barbara Overton Terrell Johnson. She was a member of St. Martin's 
Episcopal Parish Hanover County, of which whe had been a communicant since 
childhood. 

   Surviving are a daughter Miss Lillian Overton Beale of Suffolk, one son, 
William E. Beale of Handsom; one brother, Joseph Z. Johnson of Hanover; and a 
number of nephews and nieces, among the latter two nieces of Mr. Beale who 
were reared in the home, Mrs. Louise Jones Pendleton of Wytheville and Mrs. 
Martha Jones Pretlow of South Richmond. 

   Funeral services were conducted from the home on Monday afternoon, January 
3, at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. John A. Winslow, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal 
Church, Suffolk. Joel Holland of Murfreesboro, N.C. sang "Abide With Me" and 
"The Strife Is O'er" accompanied on the organ by Prof. B.F. James of Roanoke 
Rapids, N.C. 

   Interment was in the family cemetery near the home.  Pallbearers were 
Roswell Hart, Walter Bishop, Frank Walton, J.Z. Johnson, Col. C.F. Johnson, 
Bernard Johnson, Dr. R. Terrell Johnson and R.S. Tatem. 

   The casket was covered with a pall of red rosebuds, madonna lilies, white 
carnations and ferns. There were many other beautiful pieces which with the 
large crowd of relatives and friends that gathered for the last rites, 
attested the esteem in which "Miss Lillian" was held by both races. 

   She was indeed a friend of the poor and needy; as a good neighbor she gave 
freely of her time and her means to those in need.  During the depression 
years of 1929 and 1930 she had charge of the distribution of Red Cross 
supplies in her section of the county and as long as her health permitted she 
assisted the County Welfare workers. 

   She was a great lover of children and flowers and spent much time with 
both.  She will be greatly missed in the community in which she spent such a 
large part of her life. 

"We cannot think of her as dead, 
 Who walks with us no more. 
 Along the paths of life we tread, 
 She had but gone before." 


Lillian (JOHNSON; Mrs. William E.) BEALE, 
Hanover Co. native, d. 1 Jan 1955, at home, Southampton Co., age 77, 
interred in the BEALE family cemetery*, near Handsom, 3 Jan 1955, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 6 & 13, 1955 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-18): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 7, 1936) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b400w4ob.txt 


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