Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beale, Sarah E. Barnes, 1938 

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SARAH ELIZABETH BARNES BEALE 

MRS. SARA [sic; SARAH] BARNES BEALE 

  Mrs. Sara Elizabeth Barnes Beale, 93 years of age, died Wednesday morning 
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.L. Brett in the Como community.  She was 
the daughter of the late John and Telitha Barnes Beale [sic; Buxton Barnes*] 
of this County, and had been a consistent member of New Hope M.E. Church for 
many years.  She leaves three children, Mrs. W.L. Brett, Mrs. J.L. Howell 
and John W. Beale, all of Como, 22 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and 
a large number of nieces and nephews. 

  Funeral services for her were conducted from New Hope Church Thursday 
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by her Pastor, Rev. C.F. Moseley, assisted by Rev. 
D.J. Robinson, pastor of Como Baptist Church, burial following in the family 
cemetery.  Grandsons and great-grandsons served as active and honorary 
pallbearers. 



Sarah Elizabeth "Bettie" (BARNES; Mrs. John William Z.T.) BEALE, 
b. Apr 1845, VA, d. 19 Oct 1938, at daughter's home, Hertford Co., NC, 
interred in Blackjack Oak (Blackjack) Cemetery*, 20 Oct 1938, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 34, No. 3, Fri., Oct. 21, 1938, p. 5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-31): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Topotraveler - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #70327316. 

No D.Cert. found 

Her parents m. in 1834 in Southampton Co. 

Bettie, her siblings & their widowed mother "Letha" appear in the 1850 Census 
   - Nottoway Parish, Southampton Co. - as paupers. 


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