Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blythe, Anna B. Stieh, 1923 

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ANNA BARBARA STIEH BLYTHE 

   Anna Barbara, the youngest daughter of Frederick and Johanna* Stieh, was 
born in Nansemond county June 24, 1886.  During her babyhood the family spent 
a few years in North Carolina.  When she was a five-year-old child, her father 
moved to the Sedley neighborhood, where her bright and attractive girlhood and 
strong womanhood have been a blessing to the neighborhood ever since.  As a 
girl in her teens she gave her heart to Jesus and unite with Black Creek 
Baptist church and was a conscientious member thereof at the time of her death.

   She was united in marriage with Tazewell J. Blythe November 28, 1904, and 
more than eighteen years were spent happily together.  This home was blessed 
with six children and as a mother Anna Blythe was careful that her children 
be provided not only with the physical necessities of life, but she was 
especially anxious that they do well in school, and that the school should be 
able to rightly develop them.  She was intensely interested in their spiritual 
development as well, and was glad to give them to the cradle roll of the 
Sunday school and associate membership of the church.

   She passed to meet her Savior March 22, 1923, aged 36 years, 8 months, 29 
days.  So had passed the life of a worthy woman.  Through necessity a life 
kept rather closely at home, yet of a positive influence, an influence that 
cannot be narrowed for her character has been indelibly stamped upon the lives 
of her children and through them will naturally widen out as the years roll 
on.  Whatever her finished work may be, we can readily adopt the words of our 
Master in speaking of one of the beautiful and lovely characters of his close 
acquaintance when He said, "She hath done what she could."

   Funeral services were held at Friend’s Church, Sedley, Friday, the 23rd, 
at 2:30, conducted by Nathan Pickett, with Rev. C.L. Eubank of Black Creek 
Baptist Church delivering the funeral sermon.


Anna Barbara (STIEH; Mrs. Tazewell J.) BLYTHE, 
b. 28 Nov 1886, Nansemond Co., d. 22 Mar 1923, Southampton Co., 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery**, Sedley, 23 Mar 1923, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 30, 1923, p. 5 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Rosemont list (S-4): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 25, 1954) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b430t3ob.txt 

*Her mother's 1927 D.Cert. (14508 {B&I}) gives Joanna, 
   daughter of Pierce & Joanna, buried Isle of Wight Co. 
   She was actually the eldest daughter of Franklin 'Pierce' TURNER & 
   "Sallie" Sarah BRADSHAW, m. 8 Mar 1877 (So.Co. MB3:136). 


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