Southampton-Brunswick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Barham, Ida J. Dameron, 1923 

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IDA J. BARHAM

DEATH OF MRS. E.P. BARHAM

   Mrs. E.P. Barham, who has been at Lakeview Hospital Suffolk, for the past 
week died Tuesday night.  Her death had spred a cloud of sadness over the 
entire community. the loss, not only to the M.E. Church and Sunday School but 
to the High School, W.C.T.U., Ladies Aid Society and other organization is 
irreparable. She was ever ready and willing to do all in her power for the 
advancement of God's kingdon and for the benefit of humanity.  We pray God's 
blessing on the family and loved ones.

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IDA DAMERON BARHAM

   Mrs. Ida Dameron Barham, beloved wife of E. P. Barham of the Capron 
community died Tuesdsay, May 22, 1923, in Lakeview Hospital, age fifty-three 
years, the date of her birth being May 22, 1870.  She was before her marriage 
Miss Ida Dameron of Brunswick County and was married to Eugene Percival Barham 
of Southampton June 15, 1892.  Besides her husband she is survived by three 
children, Mrs. J.P. King of Franklin, Will J. Barham of Brodnax and Percy D. 
Barham of Capron; by her mother, Mrs. Maria E. Dameron; three brothers, George 
L. Dameron of Alberta, John A. Dameron of Petersburg and Walter T. Dameron of 
Warfield, Va.; one foster daughter, Miss Maria Camp of Capron, four 
grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

   Mrs. Barham had been in poor health for several years although her death 
was quite unexpected. Perhaps no member of her community, or of any community, 
wrought more nobly in every good cause than she and her life’s work leaves an 
impression for good that will extend and enlarge throughout the years in the 
lives of those with whom she came in contact and blessed by the finest and 
highest type of service of which she was capable.  As a true helpmate, a 
loving and self-sacrificing mother, a kind and affectionate daughter to her 
own aged mother, a good and generous neighbor, a Sunday school teacher for 
thirty-one years, and as one who could be counted on to enlist in every worthy 
movement in her church and community life, her earthly existence was spent in 
a way recalling the beautiful works of Proverbs in which King Lemuel recounts 
the praise and properties of a good wife - "Many daughters have done 
virtuously, but thou excellest them all."

   The funeral services were conducted from her home Thursday afternoon at 
2:30 o’clock by her Pastor Rev. E.F. Garner of the Capron M.E. Church, 
assisted by her former Pastor Rev. W.H. Riddick and by Rev. L.S. Flourney of 
High Street M.E. Church, Franklin.  "Asleep in Jesus" and "Shall We Gather at 
the River" were sung, and at the grave side in the Old Barham family burial 
plot near-by, her class of little girls, led by Miss Esmond Drewry, Mrs. 
Barham’s substitute teacher in the Capron M.E. Sunday School, sang "Abide with 
Me" each one dropping a white rosebud upon the casket which was covered with 
beautiful flowers, eloquent expressions of friendship from loved ones and 
neighbors.  The pallbearers were: active, Chandler W. Dugger, H.L. Westbook, 
D.D. Barham, W.P. Gillette, Jr., Paul Ellis, Dr. J.N. Applewhite, B.F. 
Applewhite, Paul Scarborough; honorary, W. H. Lankford, W.R. Atkinson, Dr. 
E.A. DeBordenave, George Raney, W.P. Gillette, Sr., L.J. Bain, E.E. Rawlings, 
J.T. Barham, R.M. Newton, J.R. Underwood, Harry Barham, L. O. Crutchlow, E.D. 
Barham, W.D. Reese, T.W. Story, James T. Gillette.


Ida (DAMERON; Mrs. E. "Percy") BARHAM, 
b. 22 May 1870, Brunswick Co., d. 22 May 1923, Suffolk, 
interred in old BARHAM family cemetery*, Capron, 24 May 1923, 
later re-interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 4**), Franklin, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), death notice, May 25, 1923, p. 8; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit, May 25, 1923, p. 1 

*likely the BARHAM-SIMMONS-TURNER family cemetery, Bethlehem Crossroads, 
   where her in-laws are buried. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (VIII-41): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 

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

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 3, 1936, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b650e2ob.txt 


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