Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Briggs, M. Sue Dunn, 1932 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Mrs. Briggs Dies In Her Eightieth Year Mrs. Martha C. [sic] Briggs, widow of W.S. Briggs, died last night at 8:30 o'clock at the home of S.V. Camp, in Sebrell. She was in her eightieth year and her health had been failing for some time. Funeral will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the Camp home. Burial will be made in the family plot. Mrs. Briggs is survived by a son, E.W. Sebrell, of Lawrenceville, and a daughter, Mrs. S.B. [sic; S.V.] Camp, of Sebrell. Also fifteen grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. Martha Susan "Sue" (DUNN SEBRELL; Mrs. Willie Stith) BRIGGS, b. 1853*, "Vine Hill," Nash Co., NC, d. 7 Nov 1932, at daughter's home, near Sebrell, interred in the Silverton Cemetery*, Cabin Point Rd., 9 Nov 1932, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 10, No. 198, Tues., Nov. 8, 1932, p. 1 *Additional information: Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (VIII-38): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt Her first husband, Benjamin Walter SEBRELL (1850 - 1879), is buried in the SEBRELL-SIMMONS Cemetery, Sebrell - Plot 24. Their daughter Romine Inez (SEBRELL; Mrs. Stafford V.) CAMP (1875 - 1947), is buried in Plot 23. SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-9): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt D.Cert. 25548 (Jerusalem #5) gives daughter of Benjamin W. & Martha Ann (BELL) DUNN; d. age 79 yrs., Mch., 31 days. For additional information & photos, see "The Camps of Barn Tavern, Virginia" (2010), by her great-grandson Stafford V. CAMP III - especially Chapter IV (pp. 115-35). Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b620m4ob.txt