Southampton County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Barrett, Virginia C. Dunford, 1923 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ VIRGINIA C. DUNFORD BARRETT MRS. GEORGE H. BARRETT Mrs. George H. Barrett, a former resident of this county, died at the home of her husband in Portsmouth Tuesday morning at the age of seventy-four. Body was brought to Franklin for burial, interment being made in the Sycamore Church burying ground Wednesday morning with services conducted by rev. H.F. Jones of Port Norfolk. The deceased was a good woman of many noble traits and was a consistent and useful member of Sycamore Baptist Church for many years. She is survived by her aged husband, by two sons. J.P. Barrett and D.I. Barrett and by three daughters, Mrs. A.G. Carter, Mrs. C.W. Newton and Miss Willie Barrett. [Source for name: Southampton Co. Marriage record dated 12-31-1868.] [Virginia C. (DUNFORD; Mrs. George H..) BARRETT, d. 22 May 1923, Portsmouth, age 74, interred in Sycamore Baptist Church Cemetery, 23 May 1923, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 25, 1923, p. 5] [file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager.]