Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Daughtrey, Helen R. Morecock, 1939 

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HELEN R. MORECOCK DAUGHTREY

   Mrs. Helen M. Daughtrey, highly-esteemed citizen of Sunbeam and wife of V.K. 
Daughtrey, died Sunday afternoon in Raiford Hospital following a brief illness. 
Mrs. Daughtrey was 71 years of age and was known and loved by a wide circle of 
friends and acquaintances as a woman of unusually fine Christian character, a 
devoted wife and mother, a generous and considerate neighbor.

   Mrs. Daughtrey was a daughter of the late John E. and Mrs. Virginia Myrick 
Morecock of a well-known Halifax County, North Carolina, family and besides her 
husband is survived by two sons, Prof. William H. Daughtrey of V.P.I., 
Blacksburg, and V.K. Daughtrey, Jr. of Franklin; one daughter, Miss Mary 
Virginia Daughtrey of Sunbeam; a brother, William M. Morecock of Halifax County, 
N.C.; two sisters, Mrs. W.H. Davis of Wilson, N.C. and Mrs. L. N. Drewry of 
Blacksburg, Va., and by a granddaughter.

   Funeral services were conducted from the family residence at Sunbeam Tuesday 
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by the Rev. C.F. Moseley, assisted by the Rev. C.P. 
Cleveland of Newsoms. Burial was made in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, the 
active pallbearers being: Wiley Edwards, J. Edward Moyler, Linwood C. Drake, 
R.B. Bryant, Jr., Roswell Hart, Lloyd Freeman, John Freeman and Emmett Rawls.


Helen R. (MORECOCK; Mrs. Virginius K. {Sr.}) DAUGHTREY, of Sunbeam, 
Halifax Co., NC native, d. 22 Jan 1939, Franklin, age 71, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 27*), Franklin, 
   24 Jan 1939, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 27, 1939, p. 5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Poplar Spring list:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 11, 1958, Sect. I, p. 7) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d236v1ob.txt 


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