Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Elizabeth J. Holcombe, 1960 

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ELIZABETH JAMES HOLCOMBE EDWARDS

   Mrs. Elizabeth Holcombe Edwards, 75, died early Friday morning in the 
local hospital after an illness of several weeks.

   She was a member of the Nottoway Chapel Methodist Church.

   Surviving her are five daughters, Mrs. Herman Beale, Mrs. E. Harrell 
Whitley, Jr., Mrs. Henry Bradshaw and Mrs. Samuel Butler, Jr., all of 
Franklin, and Mrs. Fenton Worrell of Ivor; four sons; Joseph Elliott Edwards 
and Robert L. Edwards of Franklin, William James Edwards and Lionel Edwards 
of Courtland; 13 grandchildren; one brother, S.V. Holcombe of Baltimore, Md.; 
nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted at the W.J.M. Holland Chapel Sunday at 2 
p.m. by the Rev. E. Stephen Babcock, pastor of Nottoway Chapel, the Rev. 
Gilliam Bentley, pastor of High St. Methodist Church, and the Rev. J.W. Horne, 
pastor of Tucker Swamp Baptist Church.  Burial was in the Holcombe Family 
Cemetery near Courtland.

   Pallbearers were Roland Whitley, Braxton Holcombe, Edgar Blythe, Clifton 
Barnes, Marvin Butler and Mitchell Rabil.


[Elizabeth James (HOLCOMBE; Mrs. William R.) EDWARDS, 
 d. 18 Mar 1960, Franklin, age 75, 
 interred in the HOLCOMBE family cemetery*, near Courtland, 20 Mar 1960, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 21, 1960, p. 4] 

[*located on Story's Station Rd. (Rt. 650), 2/10 mile north of Southampton 
   Parkway (US 58), near Courtland, 
 Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
     Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-20):
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt] 

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