Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cobb, Antoinette Holland, 1943 

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ANTIONETTE HOLLAND COBB

   Mrs. Nettie Holland Cobb, wife of Dr. R.H. Cobb of this town and a highly-
esteemed and beloved Franklin citizen, died at her home in South High Street 
Sunday afternoon, February 14, in her 77th year after an illness of several 
months.  She was the daughter of the late Frank M. Holland and Mrs. Virginia 
Brown Holland, her father, incidentally, being Franklin’s first postmaster. 
She was a devout member of the Franklin Baptist Church and of its mission 
organizations, and numbered a host of friends in the town and community.

   Besides her husband, she is survived by four daughters; Mrs. Roger I. 
Beale, Mrs. W.A. Moyler and Mrs. R.J. Howell of Franklin, and Mrs. W.W. Miller 
of Johnson City, Tenn.; four grandchildren; Mrs. Walter D. Hankins of Johnson 
City, Tenn.; W.W. Miller, Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn., Richard Cobb Miller, 
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Lieut. Roger I. Beale, Jr., of Camp Bowie, 
Texas; and three great-grandchildren.

   Funeral services were conducted from the home Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 
o’clock by her pastor, Rev. R.D. Stephenson, by the Rev. B.B. Bland of 
Portsmouth and Rev. Harry Wardell Backhus, III, pastor of High Street 
Methodist Church, in the presence of many friends of the family.  There was a 
pall of white carnations, calla lilies and gardenias.  Burial was made in the 
family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the pallbearers being: Henry 
Fitzgerald, Jno. C. Parker, Jr., Dr. Beaman Story, Wesley Beale, Edward F. 
Gilliam, J. Edward Moyler, Tony Cobb, W.H. Norfleet, W.T. Pace, Jr. and Frank 
E. Howell.


Antoinette "Nettie" (HOLLAND; Mrs. RICHARD H.) COBB, 
d. 14 Feb 1943, at home, Franklin, age 77, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 22*), Franklin, 
   16 Feb 1943, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 19, 1943, p. 1 

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

Her parents are buried in Section 1, Plot 9. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Her husband's (donated 1946) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c100r1ob.txt 


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