Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gilliam, Antionette Z. Harris, 1956 

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ANTIONETTE HARRIS GILLIAM

MRS. ANTIONETTE H. GILLIAM

   Mrs. Antionette Harris Gilliam, 89 (known to her close friends as "Miss 
Nettie"), widow of John Everett Gilliam, died Sunday night at 9:40 in a 
Richmond hospital after a short illness. 

   She was a native of Southampton County, the daughter of Fabian Lewis and 
Mrs. Ann H. Harris, and came to make her home with her aunt, Mrs. Henry Rawls, 
at nearby Franklin at an early age. S he attended Finney College in Suffolk. 
Except for a period between 1893 and 1907 when the family lived in Newport 
News and Norfolk, she had made her home in Franklin, where she was one of the 
oldest members of High Street Methodist Church. 

   Mrs. Gilliam is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Claire Gilliam Simpson, and 
a son, Edward Franklin Gilliam, both of Franklin; a granddaughter, Mrs. June 
Fox Schiro of Cincinnati, Ohio; a great-grandson, Jack Schiro,of Cincinnati, 
and two great-granddaughters, Caron Schiro of Cincinnati, and Mrs. John H. 
Lane of Durham, N.C. 

   Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the graveside in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery by Rev. James W. Turner and Rev. J.S. Maxey.  The 
pallbearers were G. Carl Steinhardt, W.T. Pace, Jr., R.A. Pretlow, Jr., Samuel 
Bradshaw, W.M. Weede, J.Linwood Edwards, R. Ellsworth Jones, and C.C. Vaughan, 
III. 


Antionette "Nettie" Z. (HARRIS; Mrs. John E.) GILLIAM, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 15 Jul 1956, Richmond, age 89, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 90A*), Franklin, 
   17 Jul 1956, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 19, 1956 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Additional information: 

John E. Gilliam, 24, single, b. & res. So.ampton, 
   sn/o Thos. & Winey Gilliam, Merchant 
Nettie Z. Harris, 21, single, b. & res. So.ampton, 
   dt/o F.L. & P.A. Harris
m.lic. 17 Oct 1887, by clerk B.F. McLemore 
m. 19 Oct 1887, Franklin, So.ampton, by Geo. E. Booker 
(Southampton Co. MB6:220) 

Her parents: 

Fabian L. Harris, 25, single, b. & res. Southampton Co., 
   sn/o Howell & Mary Harris, Farming 
Pattie A. Murrell, 23, widowed, b. & res. Southampton Co., 
   dt/o Joel & Sarah E. Harris
m.lic. 4 Dec 1865, by clerk L.R. Edwards 
m. 7 Dec 1865, Southampton Co., by Thos. M. Newsom 
(Southampton Co. MB1A:83; M.Reg. 1853-72, p. 16 #53) 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 4, 1921, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g450j1ob.txt 


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