Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ellis, Mabel E. Cogsdale, 1972 

************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

MABEL COGSDALE ELLIS

   WAKEFIELD - A funeral service for Mrs. Mabel Cogsdale Ellis, 51, of Newsoms 
was held Saturday, August 12 at 2 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Home by the Rev. 
Harry Bunch.

   Burial was in Newsoms Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were P.D. Crumpler, Robert Eagleston, C.J. Arrington Jr., 
Robert Vann, Howard Ellis, A.F. Catlett, Claude Drake Jr. and Lloyd Taylor.

   Mrs. Ellis died Friday morning at Southampton Memorial Hospital.

   A native of Southampton County, she was a daughter of Mrs. Clarice Miles 
Cogsdale of Newsoms and the late James Lee Cogsdale and the wife of Benjamin 
F. Ellis Jr.

   She was a member of Wakefield Baptist Church.

   Besides her husband and mother, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. S.A. 
Whitmore Jr. and Miss Pamela E. Ellis of Wakefield; two brothers, James E. 
Cogsdale of Newsoms and Thomas N. Cogsdale of Sedley; three sisters, Mrs. 
Lloyd D. Taylor of Newsoms, Mrs. P.D. Crumpler of Handsom, and Mrs. Charles J. 
Arrington Jr. of Courtland; and two grandchildren.


Mabel Elizabeth (COGSDALE; Mrs. Benjamin F. Jr.) ELLIS, of Wakefield, 
formerly of Newsoms, 
b. 8 May 1921, Southampton Co., d. 11 Aug 1972, Franklin, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 12 Aug 1972, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 17, 1972, B-8 

*Apparently moved; marked in Wakefield Cemetery.  A photo of her marker is 
   posted with her Find A Grave Memorial, #127289245. 

Her Death Certificate, #72-023744, gives res. Wakefield, buried Newsoms; 
   source also for birth date. 

Her parents and in-laws are buried in Hollywood Cemetery. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-17 & -30): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 11, 1954) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c234j2ob.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/e420m2ob.txt