Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Rosa Knight, 1918 

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ROSA LEE KNIGHT EDWARDS

MRS. W.T. EDWARDS

   Mrs. Rosa Knight Edwards, the beloved wife of W.T. Edwards of Boykins, died 
at her home here June 18, in her forth-sixth year.  She underwent a serious 
operation in Sarah Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, last October and although her 
recovery was slow, her friends were hopeful that she would completely regain 
her strength until a few weeks ago when other complications set in and she grew 
rapidly worse until the end. 

   She was the daughter of the late Alexander Knight and Mrs. Kate Carr Knight 
of this community and was happily married to W.T. Edwards in 1902. Besides her 
bereaved husband, she is survived by her aged mother, one sister, Mrs. Grace 
Knight,  and three brothers, A.L., H.F. and R.C. Knight, all of Boykins, and by 
a host of friends. 

   She was a faithful member of the Boykins M.E. Church and until too feeble to 
attend its services was a valued worker, serving as Sunday school teacher, 
treasurer of the Parsonage Society, superintendent of the Sunday school Cradle 
Roll department and was a charter member of the Rosebud Missionary Society, and 
will be greatly missed by her fellow laborers in the King's business. 

   The funeral services, held the following day, were brief but very 
appropriate and impressive and were conducted by her pastor, Rev. Porter Hardy, 
assisted by the other pastors of the town, Rev. A.C. Jordan and H.P. Dalton. 
The active pallbearers were Paul Edwards, N.S. Beaton, Henry Deloatch, E.R. 
Bryant, Jas. T. Knight and O.H. Barclay; honorary, W.W. White, H.A. Moore, S.B. 
Drewry, W.D. Mannes, A.S. Francis, R.T. Andrews E.H. Grizzard, J.D. Ferguson, 
Frank Knight and Dr. J.M. Bland. 

   The floral decorations were beautiful and fragrant, typical of her beautiful 
life, well rounded out in the midst of her years. 


[Rosa Lee (KNIGHT; Mrs. W.T.) EDWARDS, d. 18 Jun 1918, age 46, 
 bd. Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins, 19 Jun 1918, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 28 Jun 1918, p. 3] 

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