Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burgess, Ellie E. Coggsdale, 1959 

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ELLIE ESTELLE COGGSDALE BURGESS 

MRS. CLYDE W. BURGESS BURIED YESTERDAY 

   Funeral services for Mrs. Ellie Coggsdale Burgess were held yesterday 
(Sunday) afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Hunterdale Christian Church by the 
Rev. Joe French, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Melvin Dollar of Newport News 
and the Rev. Stanley C. Burgess of Richmond.

   Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Edgar Blythe, --- Vaughan, Jesse Gardner, Ben Kitchen, 
S.M. Joyner, Leroy Allen and Russell Britt.

   Mrs. Burgess, 67, well known resident of the Hunterdale community, died 
early Friday morning in Raiford Memorial Hospital after an illness of several 
months.

   She was the wife of Clyde W. Burgess and the daughter of James E. and Mrs. 
Antoinette Holland Coggsdale of Southampton County.  She was a member of the 
Hunterdale Christian Church and active in church organizations.

   Surviving, besides her husband, are one daughter, Mrs. Helen Burgess 
Newsoms of Franklin; three sons, the Rev. Stanley C. Burgess, pastor of 
Oakwood Memorial Baptist Church, Richmond; Hubert H. Burgess of Franklin and 
Clyde W. Burgess, Jr., of Miami, Fla.; 11 grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. 
W.J. Burgess and Mrs. Sadie Bryant, both of Courtland; Mrs. Katie Bryant of 
Franklin and Mrs. L.R. Bracey of Ivor; four brothers, L.R. Coggsdale of 
Franklin; Joe Coggsdale of Suffolk; Ray Coggsdale of Courtland and William 
Coggsdale of Roanoke Rapids.


Ellie Estelle (COGGSDALE; Mrs. Clyde W.) BURGESS, of Hunterdale, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 1 May 1959, Franklin, age 67, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 198*), Franklin, 
   3 May 1959, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 4, 1959, p. 4 

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

Her parents are buried in the same section - Plot 22B; apparently moved. 
   Both of their obits give buried in Nottoway Chapel Cemetery, where 
   Ellie's sister Lizzie is buried. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-57): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 

Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," June 16, 1933, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c234j4ob.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 21, 1957) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c234a1ob.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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