Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bryant, Antoinette M., 1937 

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ANTOINETTE MARY BRYANT

   The death of Miss Antoinette Mary Bryant occurred Monday evening about 
nine o'clock at the residence in North High Street after an illness of nearly 
a year's duration.

   Miss Bryant was born at "Bloomfield" plantation, on the Courtland-Sedley 
road, June 22, 1866.  She was the daughter of the late James Deberry Bryant 
and Mrs. Mary Louise (Nutt) Bryant, and had for more than fifty years been a 
resident of Franklin.  After her mother's death in 1913 she had made her home 
with her sister, Mrs. J.A. Jackson, in High Street.  Uniting with the Franklin 
Methodist Church at the age of 13 years, she was in point of service one of 
the oldest members of the local congregation.

   A member of a prominent Southampton family, Miss Bryant was the half-sister 
of the late Dr. James Fenton Bryant, N. Bynum Bryant, and Mrs. Rosa Bryant 
Gay, and the sister of Mrs. Flora B. Jackson and the late Robert Murray Bryant.

   She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Jackson, and a number of nieces and 
nephews, including J.F. Bryant, Jr., Mrs. J.J. Jones, Joe Bynum Gay, Sr., Miss 
Annie E. Gay, Mrs. B.L. Holt, L. Ashby Gay, all of Franklin, and J.A. Jackson, 
Jr. of Grantsville, West Virginia, Mrs. B.M. Trotter and Edgar Jackson of 
Norfolk.

   Funeral services were conducted from the home Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 
o'clock, the officiating clergyman being Rev. A. McK. Reynolds of High Street 
M.E. Church, assisted by a former pastor, Rev. Roscoe Jones of Portsmouth, and 
Revs. R.D. Stephenson and Elwood Jones of Franklin.  Interment was in the 
Bryant plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Honorary pallbearers included W.T. Pace, Sr., George H. Parker, J.F. 
Bryant, Jr., Joe Bynum Gay, Sr., L. Ashby Gay, Jesse A. Weede, J. Edgar Weede, 
Harry Steinhardt, C.C. Vaughan, 3rd, J.C. Parker, Jr., Dr. A.P. Cutchin, 
J.W.B. Thompson, J.J. Jones and Dr. R.L. Raiford.  The active pallbearers were 
B.L. Holt, W.M. Weede, and Joe Bynum Gay, Jr. of Franklin, G. Raney Bryant of 
Richmond, Jesse A. Jackson, Jr., of Grantsville, West. Va., B.M. Trotter, 
Jesse Jackson Trotter and Edgar Jackson of Norfolk.


Antoinette Mary BRYANT, 
b. 22 Jun 1866, "Bloomfield," Southampton Co., 
d. 27 Sep 1937, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 67/68*), Franklin, 
   29 Sep 1937, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 1, 1937, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Her parents are bd. in Section 1, Plot 54. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 21, 1913) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b653m1ob.txt 


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