Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gillette, Lucy Saunders, 1980 

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LUCY SAUNDERS GILLETTE

   Franklin - A funeral service for Mrs. Lucy Saunders Gillette, 76, was 
Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in Wright Funeral Home by the Revs. Richard P. Cooke and 
C.L. Gatling.  Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley.

   A resident of Black Creek community, she died Friday in Southampton 
Memorial Hospital.

   She was a native of Southampton County and the widow of Ryland William 
Gillette.  She was a graduate of Longwood College and taught in the Nansemond 
county school system for several years.

   She was a member of Sedley Baptist Church and taught Sunday school. She 
also was a leader of the Women’s Missionary Society and member of the Women’s 
Christian Temperance Union, having held many offices, both local and state.

   Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Mary G. Whitley of Sedley, Mrs. 
Evelyn G. Vaughan, Mrs. Ryland G. Newsome and Mrs. Anne G. Cross of Franklin; 
10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

   Memorial donations may be made to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union or 
building fund of Sedley Baptist Church.


Lucy Elizabeth (SAUNDERS; Mrs. Ryland W.) GILLETTE, of Black Creek, 
   former Nansemond Co. teacher, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 18 Apr 1980, Franklin, age 76, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley, 20 Apr 1980, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 21, 1980, p. 12 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Rosemont list (S-31): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 

The obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 3, 1931, p. 5) for an infant daughter, 
   Ella Camp GILLETTE, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g430e2ob.txt 

Ella (unmarked?) was added to the list of her paternal grandfather's 
   Joseph Ezra GILLETTE's family cemetery. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-51): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 



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