Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blowe, Mollie M. Brett, 1927 

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CAPRON EVENTS AND NEWS PARAGRAPHS 

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Death of Mrs. William H. Blow [sic; Blowe] 

  Mrs. William H. Blow of the community, age 56 years, died Saturday, April 
30, at Raiford's Hospital, Sedley, where she had been for about ten days. 
Mrs. Blow, who had been in poor health for many years, was a Christian woman, 
a loving mother and wife and a faithful member of Whiteheads Church, ever 
ready to serve her Master.  Besides her husband she is survived by two 
daughters, four sons, two grandchildren and several sisters and brothers. 
She will be missed in her community and her church.  Funeral services were 
conducted at the cemetery here Sunday afternoon by Rev. W.H. Riddick, assisted 
by Rev. L.W. Kersey of the Baptist Church, in the midst of many sorrowing 
relatives and friends. 


Mollie M. (BRETT; Mrs. William Henry) BLOWE, 
b. 3 Nov 1870*, Hertford Co., NC, May d. 30 Apr 1927, Sedley, 
interred in Capron Cemetery*, 1 May 1927, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 22, No. 32, Fri., May 13, 1927, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Capron list (C-5): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/capron.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Budjr - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #33053724. 

D.Cert. 9722 (Jerusalem #8) gives b. 3 Nov 1871. 

Her father James Elbert BRETT (1834 - 1915) was a Confederate veteran, having 
   served as a private in Co. H, 41st VA Infantry.  Her step-mother (1855 - 
   1930) applied for a pension 28 Jun 1924 in Southampton Co. 

Her father left will 23 Oct 1903, proved 16 Dec 1915. 
   (Hertford Co., NC, WB D:373-75) 

Her father & step-mother are marked in the New Hope Church Site Historic 
   Cemetery, near Como, Hertford Co., NC.  Her father ("1833 - 1915") also 
   has a Confederate gravestone in a field just outside Como, NC. 


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