Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blythe, Rosa Cobb, 1959 

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ROSA COBB BLYTHE

Mrs. Rosa Blythe 

   Mrs. Rosa Cobb Blythe, 81, well-known resident of the Franklin area and 
widow of Mallory B. Blythe, Sr., died Sunday at her home after a long illness.

   She was the daughter of Newitt and Mrs. Martha Webster Cobb of Southampton 
County.  She was a member of Bethel Friends Meetings House and the Friends 
Guild Society.

   Surviving are five sons, Luther W. Blythe, Cecil Blythe, Phillip Wayne 
Blythe, Howard Blythe and Mallory Blythe, Jr., all of Franklin; three 
daughters, Mrs. Bertha B. Lankford and Mrs. Bennie R. Carr, both of Franklin, 
and Mrs. James Corbitt, Newport News; 21 grandchildren; and nine great-
grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Martha Griffin, Franklin, and one half-
brother, Samuel Cobb, Franklin.

   The body was taken to the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home, where 
funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 3 p.m. by the Rev. James Coney, 
retired pastor of Bethel Friends Meeting House.

   Burial will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers will be Isaac C. White, Exum N. White, Linwood Ricks, Lee 
Moorman White, Chester W. Burgess, Jr. and Dr. T.A. Morgan.

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Mrs. Rosa Blythe Buried at Franklin 

  FRANKLIN - Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa Cobb Blythe, who died Sunday, were 
conducted Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the W.J.M. Holland Funeral Home, by the Rev. 
James A. Coney and the Rev. Tucker G. Humphries.  Burial was in Poplar Springs 
Cemetery.  Pallbearers were Exum White, Moorman White, Chester Burgess, Jr., 
Dr. T.A. Morgan, Tall Jones and Linwood Ricks. 


Rosa (COBB; Mrs. Mallory B. {Sr.}) BLYTHE, 
b. 1 Sep 1879, Southampton Co., d. 23 Jun 1959, at home, near Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 98*), Franklin, 
   23 Jun 1959, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA),  Vol. 54, No. 50, Mon., June 22, 1959, p. 5; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 150, Wed., June 24, 1959, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Budjr - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #93131024. 

D.Cert. 21492 (Franklin #100) gives b. 1 Sep 1877. 

The 1900 Census - Jerusalem Dist., Southampton Co. - gives b. Mar 1880. 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," June 11, 1937, p. 10) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b430m6ob.txt 


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