Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Carr, Margaret B. Lewis, 1931 

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MARGARET BESSIE LEWIS CARR 

  Franklin, March 18 - (Special) - Mrs. Bessie Lewis Carr, 57, wife of N.L. 
Carr, of Franklin, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R.C. Branch, on 
Norfleet Street, this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from a heart attack.

  Besides her husband, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. W.F. Turner, of 
Whaleyville; one daughter, Mrs. Branch, of Franklin; two sons, Johnnie N. 
Carr, of Norfolk, and Roy Carr, of Roanoke; five sisters, Mrs. F.A. Lufsey, 
of Portsmouth; Mrs. Linwood Benton, of Cypress Chapel; Mrs. Merritt Johnson, 
of Sedley; Mrs. John Carr, of Williamsburg; Mrs. C.E. Rountree, of 
Whaleyville; a brother, Percy Lewis, of Salisbury, N.C., and a half-brother, 
William Turner, of Portsmouth.

  Funeral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock from 
Franklin Baptist Church, High Street, with the pastor, the Rev. R.D. 
Stephenson, officiating.  Burial will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

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MARGARET BESSIE LEWIS CARR

   Mrs. Margaret Lewis Carr died at her home in Franklin Wednesday, March 18, 
in her 57th year following a period of ill health for nearly three years. 
Mrs. Carr was born in the Black Creek community, this county, marrying N.L. 
Carr about 40 years ago*.  They had made their home in Franklin for a number 
of years, and Mrs. Carr was known and esteemed by her friends and neighbors 
as an exemplary Christian character, a good woman who had always wrought 
unselfishly for the comfort and well-being of her home, her husband and their 
children.  She joined Black Creek Baptist Church as a girl, moving her 
membership to Franklin when she made this town her home, and maintained an 
active and zealous interest in her church and the work of the Woman’s 
Missionary Society and its other organizations to the end.

   She is survived by her husband, and by the following children: E. Roy Carr 
of Roanoke, John N. Carr of Norfolk and Mrs. R.C. Branch of this town; eight 
grandchildren; her aged mother, Mrs. W.F. Turner of Whaleyville; five sisters, 
Mrs. Sophronia Johnson of Sedley, Mrs. J.H. Carr of Williamsburg, Mrs. C.E. 
Rountree of Whaleyville, Mrs. F.E. Lufsey of Portsmouth and Mrs. J.L. Beaton 
of Cypress Chapel; one brother, P.E. Lewis of Salisbury, N.C.  and a half-
brother W.T. Turner of Portsmouth.

   Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock from the 
Franklin Baptist Church by her Pastor, Rev. R.D. Stephenson with special 
selections, favored hymns of the deceased by the church choir and interment 
was made in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The pallbearers were: W.O. Bristow, R.B. 
Scott, J.A. Johnson, G.R. Eubank, Joe Byrum Gay, Henry Duck, G.M. Gray and 
G.W. Branch.  Honorary pallbearers were a number of friends of the family.


Margaret Elizabeth "Bessie" (LEWIS; Mrs. Nathan L.) CARR, 
b. Black Creek, d. 18 Mar 1931, at home, Franklin, age 57, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 45B**), Franklin, 
   19 Mar 1931, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Mar. 19, 1931, p. 7; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 20, 1931 

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

*m. 20 May 1890, Gatesville, Gates Co., NC 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 24, 1933) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c600n1ob.txt 

Her father, John Thomas LEWIS, is buried in Black Creek Baptist Church 
   Cemetery.  SCHS Cemetery Project, Black Creek list (BC-21): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt 


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