Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burbage, Martha A. Winborne, 1940 

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MARTHA ANN WINBORNE BURBAGE

   Mrs. Thomas Irving Burbage, member of an old and prominent Como, N.C., 
family, died in a Norfolk hospital May 28 after a long illness.  Mrs. Burbage, 
who was 75 years of age, was the daughter of the late Major Samuel Darden 
Winborne and Mrs. Mary Pretlow Winborne of Como, being educated at the famous 
old Buckhorn Academy, taught for so many years by the late Captain Julian 
Henri Picot; at Oxford Seminary and Chowan College, Murfreesboro.  On 
January 6, 1887, she was married to Dr. Thomas I. Burbage of Franklin, who 
died in 1928 after a long and useful life as physician in the Como community. 
Mrs. Burbage was a lifelong and consistent member of the Buckhorn Baptist 
Church at Como.

   Surviving her are three daughters, Mrs. J.R. Campbell of Plymouth, N.C., 
Mrs. H.E. Bailey of Newsoms, Mrs. J.B. Campbell of Wilmington, N.C.; three 
sons, Landon W. and Thomas I. Burbage of Baltimore and S. T. Barbage; one 
brother, S.P. Winborne of Como; six nephews, Stanley Winborne of Raleigh, 
Roger M. Winborne of Lenoir, Robert W. Winborne of Roanoke, B.B. Winborne of 
Murfreesboro, Winborne Savage of Norfolk, W.E. Massenburg of Rocky Mount; 
seven nieces, Miss Mary Lee Savage of Norfolk, Mrs. W.P. McBain and Mrs. 
Julian Gary of Norfolk, Mrs. J.B. Majette and Miss Dora Winborne of Como, 
Miss Mary Winborne of Burlington and Mrs. W.J.M. Holland, Jr. of Franklin.

   Funeral services were held from the Franklin Baptist Church Wednesday 
afternoon at 4 o’clock in the presence of a large assemblage of friends, 
Joel Cooke Holland singing during the service "Have Thine Own Way, Lord."  The 
rites were conducted by a former pastor of Como, Rev. E. Norfleet Gardner of 
Henderson, N.C., assisted by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the local church and Rev. 
C.P. Cleveland of Newsoms. Burial was made in the family plot in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery here, the bearers being: H. McDonald Spiers, R.A. Majette, Julian 
Worrell, Rosser Bryant, Jr., all of Como, Jno. B. Darden, Jr., and J.L. Dail 
of Newsoms, Dr. Burton J. Ray and Dr. J.C. Rawls.  The casket was mantled with 
a pall of white carnations and Gypsophila.


[Martha Ann (WINBORNE; Mrs. Thomas I.) BURBAGE, 
 Como, NC native, d. 28 May 1940, Norfolk, age 75, 
 interred in the Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 40*), Franklin, 
    29 May 1940, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 31, 1940, p. 1] 

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

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