Southampton-Greensville County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Drewry, Adelaide D. Person, 1940 

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ADELAIDE PERSON DREWRY

   Capron sustained the loss of one of its oldest and best-loved residents in 
the death last Sunday night of Mrs. Adelaide Person Drewry, widow of James 
Emmett Drewry.  Mrs. Drewry was 80 years old, having been born in Greensville 
County on March 11, 1860, the daughter of the James Henry and Ann Elizabeth 
Darden Person.  In 1883 she married Mr. Drewry and when they moved in 1890 to 
make their home in Capron they were the second couple to come to the village.

   Mrs. Drewry was a devoted member of Capron Methodist Church and a charter 
member of its Woman’s Bible Class and Woman’s Missionary Society.  She is 
survived by five daughters, Mrs. Beverly Moss and Mrs. L.A. Porter of Norfolk; 
Mrs. L.P. Jervey of Atlanta, Mrs. J. Winston Fuqua of Surry and Miss Mary 
Drewry of Capron; one granddaughter, four grandsons, and a brother, Edward R. 
Person of Dardenelle, Ark.

   Services were held at the residence Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, 
conducted by her pastor, the Rev. C.V. Morris, assisted by the Rev. R.H. Marks 
of Union Level, a former pastor, and the Rev. A.W. Coates of Drewryville. Mrs. 
T.C. Lassiter sang "Jesus, Lover of My Soul."  Interment was made at Cedar 
View, ancestral Drewry place near Drewryville, there being a profusion of 
floral tributes.  Honorary pallbearers included friends from Virginia and 
North Carolina, active bearers being Humphrey Drewry, John Claud, Mason 
Hodges, Tom Paine Claude, S.E. Pope, James Drewry, L.R. Magee and M.P. Sebrell.


Adelaide Darden (PERSON; Mrs. James E.) DREWRY, of Capron, 
b. 11 Mar 1860, Greensville Co., d. 6 Oct 1940, 
interred in the DREWRY family cemetery (3rd Line, Lot 1*), Drewryville, 
   8 Oct 1940, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 11, 1940, p. 4 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 6 (VI-8): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol6.txt 

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