Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burgess, Elsie B., 1972 

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ELSIE BLANCHE BURGESS

   COURTLAND - A funeral service was held Saturday at 3 p.m. at the 
W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home for Miss Elsie Blanche Burgess, 
56, of Rt. 1, Box 37, Courtland.

   Services were led by Rev. Harold Lewis & Rev. Stanley Burgess.

   Pallbearers were Ed Blythe, Sidney Newsome, Lloyd Rountree, Hecktor 
Baker, Howard Hancock, and Ashley Lankford.

   Miss Burgess died Thursday Nov. 16 morning in Southampton Memorial 
Hospital after a long illness.

   A lifelong resident of the area, she was the daughter of Mrs. 
Margaret Coggsdale Burgess and the late Walter Jefferson Burgess.

   She was a member of Courtland Baptist Church.

   Besides her mother, surviving are one sister, Mrs. James H. Lee Jr. 
and one brother, Claude C. Burgess, both of Courtland; and one niece, 
Claudine B. Hines, and three nephews, James H. Lee 3rd, Donald J. Lee, 
Howard J. Burgess.

   Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Courtland.


Elsie Blanche BURGESS, lifelong resident of the area, 
d. 16 Nov 1972, Franklin, age 56, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 74*), Courtland, 
   18 Nov 1972, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 20, 1972, Sect. B, p. 2 

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

Her paternal grandparents are buried unmarked in a BURGESS family cemetery 
   near Checkerboard Corner - the intersection of Monroe & Delaware Rds. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-38): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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