Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Eley, Pauline W. Lankford, 1964 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ PAULINE WILKERSON LANKFORD ELEY Funeral service for Mrs. Pauline Lankford Eley, 79, was held Monday at 2 p.m. at the home, 500 N. High Street, by the Rev. Thomas F. Mabe, pastor of Sycamore Baptist Church, and the Rev. Thomas N. Downing of Warsaw, a former pastor. Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery with Hunter Darden Jr., Harvey Darden, Thomas Irving Darden, Charles Darden, Jesse F. Vaughan, William E. Lankford, Preston Cotton and G.C. Duck serving as pallbearers. Mrs. Eley, a native of Hertford County, N.C., lived in Franklin for many years. She was a daughter of the late James I. and Mrs. Sarah Barnes Lankford of Hertford and widow of John L. Eley Sr. She was a member of Sycamore Baptist Church and the Grace Wiggins Circle of the church. Surviving are one daughter, Miss Pauline Elizabeth Eley; four sons, John I. Eley, Jr., Clyde H. Eley and W. Herman Eley, all of Franklin and Jasper Eley of Jackson, N.C.; one sister, Mrs. Hunter Darden Sr. of Franklin and six* grandchildren, Mrs. Jayne E. Savage, W. Herman Eley II, and Janet Eley of Franklin, and William David Eley and Patty Eley of Jackson, N.C. and a number of nieces and nephews. *says 6 grandchildren, but only lists 5; I think the other one is Deborah Marie Eley (bs) Pauline Wilkerson (LANKFORD; Mrs. John L. Sr.) ELEY, of Franklin, Hertford Co., NC native, d. 28 Mar 1964, age 79, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 92A*), Franklin, 30 Mar 1958, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 9, 1964, Sect. I, p. 3 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 15, 1953), with their marriage record appended, is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e400j7ob.txt 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/e400p2ob.txt