Southampton-Powhatan County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Emma Amos, 1961 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ EMMA AMOS EDWARDS Mrs. Emma Amos Edwards, 76, died Wednesday. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Nicholls and Mrs. Nola Cheatwood of Richmond. Funeral 4 P.M. (EST) Thursday, Courtland Methodist Church, burial Riverside Cemetery. ****************************************************************************** Mrs. Edwards Service Held COURTLAND - A funeral serice for Mrs. Emma Amos Edwards, who died Wednesday, was conducted in Courtland Methodist Church Thursday by the Rev. C.W. Gibson Jr., pastor. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery here. Pallbearers were Harold C. McGrath, Edwin Cobb, John Rollison, Bernard Gillette, Hatcher Story and H.C. Manry. Emma (AMOS; Mrs. Herbert Claiborne) EDWARDS, b. 29 May 1883, Powhatan Co., d. 24 May 1961, Franklin, interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section I, Plot 42A*), Courtland, 25 May 1961, "Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Thurs., May 25, 1961, p. 4; "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 39, No. 125, Fri., May 26, 1961, p. 3 *Additional information: Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Riverside list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt A photo of her gravestone - added by Budjr - is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #136614448. D.Cert. 13810 (Franklin #89) Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 21, 1947, p. 4) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e363h5ob.txt Her parents, Joseph Goode & Lucy Emily Duval (JENNINGS) AMOS, are buried in an AMOS family cemetery, Capeway Rd., Powhatan Co. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e363e5ob.txt