Southampton-Galax County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blair, Marian Beale, 1939 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MARIAN BEALE BLAIR Mrs. Marian Beale Blair, former resident of Franklin, died at her home in Galax at noon Sunday after an illness of a few days. She was the daughter of the late Maggie Vaughan Beale and Jule* W. Beale, of Franklin, and is survived by her husband, Walter J. Blair, and one son, Walter J. Blair, Jr. of Galax; one sister, Mrs. J.O. Haslett of Franklin; one brother, J.W. Beale, Jr. of Richmond; a half-brother, Thornton Beale of Franklin; her stepmother, Mrs. Jule W. Beale, of Franklin; one niece, Carolyn Haslett, and one nephew, Jack Haslett, Jr., both of Franklin. Services were conducted at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery here Monday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock by the Rev. William Brayshaw of Smithfield. Friends of the family were honorary pallbearers, while active bearers were D.T. Prince, Jas. I. Beale, J. Soble, R.C. Councill, Geo. H. Parker, C.C. Vaughan, III, Franklin Edwards and D.B. Waugh of Galax. Marian (BEALE; Mrs. Walter J. {Sr.}) BLAIR, formerly of Franklin, d. 10 Sep 1939, at home, Galax, age 62, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 27; unmarked**), Franklin, 11 Sep 1939, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 15, 1939, p. 1 **Unmarked; added to list with her parents. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt *The obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 17, 1939, p. 1) of her father, Julius Washington BEALE, is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b400j15o.txt The obit ("Tidewater News," July 27, 1906) of her mother, "Maggie" Margaret Jane (VAUGHAN) BEALE, is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b400m5ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b460m1ob.txt