Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burgess, Mary A. Smith, 1939 

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MARY A. SMITH BURGESS

   Mrs. Mary Smith Burgess, a greatly beloved woman of our town and county, 
died Sunday night at Raiford Hospital after an illness of a year of more. 
Mrs. Burgess would have attained her 91st birthday on May 28, having spent an 
unusually long and useful life. Born in Dover, Kentucky, the daughter of Dr. 
Fletcher Smith and Mrs. Kate Bayless Smith, she was married to Daniel Morgan 
Burgess of Local Grove plantation, Fluvanna County, Virginia, in 1878, her 
husband being a gallant and honored Confederate veteran. Mr. Burgess served 
throughout the war, losing a leg in the battle of Kelly’s Ford, and 
participating in Pickett’s great charge at Gettysburg.

   Mr. and Mrs. Burgess made their home in Richmond for many years where Mr. 
Burgess was for more than 40 years connected with the Supreme Court Library. 
Moving to Sedley 20 years ago, Mr. Burgess died there in 1922. At Sedley, Mrs. 
Burgess was one of the moving spirits in the organization of Grace Memorial 
M.E. Church, Sedley, named in honor of her daughter, the late Grace Burgess 
Odell, and was quite active in the work of the Woman’s Christian Temperance 
Union throughout the county. While a resident of Richmond she was President of 
the Unity W.C.T.U. of that city.

   Intensely loyal to the spirit of the Old South and deeply interested in 
the Daughters of the Confederacy, she was the originator of the plan for 
establishing the Home of Confederate Women of Richmond, which is now housed in 
the beautiful building on the grounds of Robert Edward Lee Camp No. 1, 
Confederate Veterans there. She was a member of Agnes Lee Chapter Daughter of 
the Confederacy here and maintained a lively and helpful interest in its affairs 
so long as her health permitted.

   She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. R.L. Raiford, with whom and her son-in-
law, Dr. R.L. Raiford, she made her home; by three grandsons, Dr. Morgan B. 
Raiford, Fletcher L. Raiford and Fred Burgess Odell; a son-in-law, Rev. E.K. 
Odell, of Mathews County, and a wide circle of friends.

   Funeral services were held at the grave in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley, Monday 
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, the Rev. B.B. Bland, pastor of High Street M.E. 
Church, reading the service. Active pallbearers were: Dr. T. Addison Morgan, 
Dr. J.P. Broaddus, J.H. Boyd, J. Edgar Weede, W.M. Weede, H.A. Purnell, J.P. 
King and Rufus L. Johnson.


Mary A. (SMITH; Mrs. Daniel M.) BURGESS, of Sedley, UDC activist, 
b. Dover, KY, d. 30 Apr 1939, Franklin, age 90, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 1 May 1939, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 5, 1939 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project 
   Rosemont list (S-14): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 

Her husband's obits ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Dec. 5, 1923, p. 13, & 
   "Tidewater News," Dec. 14, 1923, p. 1, are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b622d3ob.txt 


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