Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Eley, Isabel C. Barker, 1956 

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ISABEL CHRISTINA BARKER ELEY

   Mrs. Isabel Barker Eley, 63, a resident of Zuni for many years and 
for the past few months a resident of Courtland, died at the home of her 
sister-in-law, Mrs. Fred H. Barker, Tuesday morning, January 3, after an 
illness of many months.

   Mrs. Eley was a native of North Carolina and was the daughter of the 
late Frederick G. and Dora Smithson Barker of Southampton County.  She 
was the widow of Benjamin W. Eley of Zuni and an active member of Tucker 
Swamp Baptist Church.

   She is survived by one son, Leonard W. Eley of Zuni and a number of 
nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. at the 
Funeral Home of W.J.M. Holland and Sons. Rev. L.E. Holzback, pastor of 
Tucker Swamp Baptist Church, and Rev. Gordon L. Price, pastor of Roanoke 
Rapids Baptist Church, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., officiated.  Interment was 
in the Courtland Cemetery.

   Active pallbearers were Nicholas Barker, Gene Worrell, William Rhodes, 
Harold West, Edwin Beale, Robert Rollins, Erskine Fraser and Lawrence B. 
Carr.


Isabel Christina (BARKER; Mrs. Benjamin W.) ELEY, of Courtland, 
formerly of Zuni, 
NC native, d. 3 Jan 1953, at sister-in-law's home, Courtland, age 63, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section I, Plot 18*), Courtland, 
   5 Jan 1953, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 5, 1953, Sect. I, p. 8 

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

Her father's obit ("The Tidewater News," June 30, 1933) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b626f1ob.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 23, 1940, p. 7) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b626d1ob.txt 


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