Southampton-New Kent County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bryant, Eva S. Woodward, 1934 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ EVA WOODWARD BRYANT Mrs. Eva Woodward Bryant, wife of the late Nathaniel Davis Bryant, and daughter of the late Rev. Wyatt Smith Woodward and Mrs. Martha Barham Woodward was born in New Kent County, December 24, 1856, and died Sunday, June 24, 1934, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S.S. Bishop, near Handsom. Her parents dying when she was young, she came to Franklin at the age of 16 to make her home with her uncle, Rev. John P. Woodward, of the Virginia M.E. Conference, marrying Mr. Bryant in March 1878*. She lived the remainder of her life in Southampton County. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. S.S. Bishop; three sons, J.W. and L.L. Bryant of Sunbeam and W.E. Bryant of Newport News; eight grandchildren; one great-granddaughter, little Mary Augustine Stephenson; one sister, Mrs. Mary Warriner and one brother, T.D. Woodward of Richmond, and several nieces and nephews of New Kent County. The funeral was conducted Monday afternoon from Mt. Horeb M.E. Church of which she was a member for 60 years, by Rev. J.K. Holman, assisted by Rev. L.E. Dailey and Rev. N.B. Foushee. The hymns, "How Firm a Foundation" and "Abide with Me" were sung by a special choir and "Crossing the Bar" was read. Pallbearers were: A.P. Porter, J.H. Hedgepeth, E.F. Drake, V.K. Daughtrey, W.E. Beale, K.R. Bishop, G.A. Fowler and R.S. Maddrey. The beautiful floral tributes were carried by the grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stephenson, Franklin, John and Ben Bryant, Misses Jean, Bernice and Virginia Bryant, Mildred Bishop and a niece, Miss Mary Whitlock of Richmond. The casket was covered with a double spray of lilies. Interment was made in the Bryant family burying [ground] near Sunbeam. An invalid for a long time, Mrs. Bryant was ill only a short while before her death. Training her children to serve God and their fellowmen, they rise up and call her blessed. In her going one of the oldest members of her church and community passes. Eva Sarah (WOODWARD; Mrs. Nathaniel D.) BRYANT, b. 24 Dec 1856, New Kent Co., d. 24 Jun 1934, near Handsom, interred in the BRYANT family cemetery**, Winborne Rd., near Sunbeam, 25 Jun 1934, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 29, 1934 **Location not known (Jan 2015) to the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project. She & her husband are marked, on a single stone, with several others, in Poplar Spring Cem., Franklin - Section 2, Plot 75. SCHS Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt Her son John Woodward BRYANT & daughter Mary Moore (BRYANT; Mrs. Samuel S.) BISHOP are also buried in the same plot. So are her in-laws, Benjamin Jas. & Mary Ann (JONES) BRYANT, and their son James Thomas. Mary's in-laws are bd. in a BISHOP family cemetery, on Sunbeam Rd. SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 9 (IX-22): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol9.txt *Marriage date given wrong in text above- Nathaniel D. Bryant, 24, single, b. & res. Southampton Co., sn/o Benja.J. & Mary Ann, Farmer S.E. Woodard, 22, single, b. New Kent Co., res. Southampton Co., dt/o Wyatt S. & Martha M. m.lic. 1 Mar 1879, by clerk L.R. Edwards m. 4 Mar 1879, Parsonage S,Hampton Co., by Jno.P. Woodward (Southampton Co. MB3:454) The 1900 Census gives Davis N. & Eva S. Bryant. (Newsoms Dist. {e.d. 64}, Southampton Co., p. 15; OFF #105) The 1910 Census gives Sarah E. Bryant, widow, Newsoms Dist., Southampton Co., on Winborne Rd., on Owned Free Farm #138. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b653e2ob.txt