Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Forbes, Maude B. Bridgers, 1931 

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MAUDE BELLE BRIDGERS FORBES

   Mrs. Maude Bridgers Forbes, wife of William E. Forbes of this town, died 
at her home in Clay Street February 24, after a week’s illness of pneumonia. 
Mrs. Forbes, who was in her 51st year, was a native of Northampton County, 
N.C., the daughter of the late Frank and Mrs. Ruth Mann Bridgers, and her 
parents dying while she was quite young, was raised by her grandparents, Mr. 
and Mrs. Andrew Peele of Potecasi.  On November 15, 1895, she married William 
Evan Forbes of Hertford County, N.C., and they moved to Franklin in 1902. 
Besides her husband, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Geo. A. 
Sanderford of Franklin, Miss Sadie Forbes who teaches in the Hampton High 
School, and Miss Willie Forbes of this town.  She also leaves a sister, Mrs. 
Annie C. Johnakin of Norfolk and two grandchildren, Allison and Eleanor 
Sanderford of Franklin.

   All of her married life Mrs. Forbes had been a devoted and self-sacrificing 
wife and mother, holding the comfort of the home and the well-being of its 
inmate one of the prime considerations of her existence.  She united with the 
Baptist Church at Potecasi at the age of nine, becoming affiliated with the 
Franklin Baptist Church upon making this town her home.  She was interested in 
the church and its organizations and walked the exemplary path of a consistent 
Christian, wife, mother and neighbor.

   Funeral services were held from the residence Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 
o’clock by her Pastor, Rev. R.D. Stephenson, where a large assemblage of 
relatives and friends was gathered.  Mrs. Henry Duck played and Mrs. F.E. 
Howell and Mrs. H.G. Cobb sang "How Firm a Foundation," and "Sometime We’ll 
Understand."  Interment was made in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the active 
pallbearers being: W.R. Atkinson, Roger I. Beale, H.L. Westbrook, Dr. Jordan 
Powell, Henry Duck, M.G. Councill, G.G. Smith and M.G. McClenny.  The honorary 
bearers were: J.A. Williams, J. Paul Jones, Geo. R. Hayes, Dr. R.L. Raiford, 
Dr. J.E. Nance, Wesley Beale, A.M. Stevens, F.R. Day, Jachin and Fred Forbes 
of Franklin, R.M. Newton of Hampton, and Walter, Jim, Tulle and Cecil Forbes 
of Hertford County.


Maude Belle (BRIDGERS; Mrs. William E.) FORBES, 
Northampton Co., NC native, d. 24 Feb 1931, at home, Franklin, age 51, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 13B*), Franklin, 
   25 Feb 1931, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 27, 1931, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 4, 1936, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f612w2ob.txt 


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