Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Branch, Alice Wiggins, 1957 

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ALICE WIGGINS BRANCH

   Mrs. Alice Wiggins Branch, 95, member of a prominent Southampton County 
family, died in a Norfolk hospital on Friday afternoon, May 31, at 3:10 o’clock.

   She was the widow of James Samuel Branch and a daughter of the late John B. 
and Mrs. Sarah Parker Wiggins of Southampton County. (The old Wiggins homestead 
is located just off Route 258, about six miles south of Franklin.) A charter 
member of Sycamore Baptist Church, Mrs. Branch had been a resident of Norfolk 
for the past 40 years. Prior to her marriage she had taught school in Franklin 
and in the Forks of the River.

   Mrs. Branch is survived by four sons, John Richard Branch of Richmond and 
Samuel Crawford Branch, Linwood Oliver Branch and James Selwyn Branch, all of 
Norfolk; three sisters, Mrs. Mollie Norfleet of Portsmouth, and Mrs. Effie 
Lankford and Mrs. J.F. Kitterman, both of Norfolk; a brother, Jasper L. Wiggins 
of Edenton, N.C.; and seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

   Funeral services for Mrs. Branch were conducted at the Hollomon-Brown Funeral 
Home, Norfolk, on Monday morning at 11 o’clock by Rev. Harold A. Malmborg, 
pastor of Freemason Street Baptist Church. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Albert G. Beaman, J. Branch Beaman, Walter C. Beaman, Dr. 
J.S. Kitterman, Jasper L. Norfleet, John W. Wheeler and R. Bryan Wheeler.

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MRS. ALICE W. BRANCH 

   On May 31, 1957, Mrs. Alice Wiggins Branch passed away in a Norfolk hospital.

   She was born February 2, 1862, at the old Jesse Parker manor house in 
Southampton County, near Franklin, the daughter of John Bowers and Mary S. 
Parker Wiggins.

   Graduating from the Misses Finney’s Finishing School in Suffolk in 1883, she 
taught for two years in the public school in Franklin under Mrs. Mollie Bryant. 
Later she taught in the Bethany public school until 1893.

   At the time of her death Mrs. Branch was the oldest living ex-public school 
teacher in the state of Virginia and the only living charter member of Sycamore 
Baptist Church.

   In 1893 she married James S. Branch of Enfield, N.C., who passed away in 1915.

[Alice (WIGGINS; Mrs. James S.) BRANCH, 
 b. 2 Feb 1862, Southampton Co., d. 31 May 1957, Norfolk, 
 interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, 3 Jun 1957, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 6, 1957; 
 donated obit, newspaper unknown] 

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