Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Josephine C. Saunders, 1944 

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JOSEPHINE CORNELIA HOLLAND

   Mrs. David A. Holland, resident of Franklin for many years, died at her 
home in Fourth Avenue last Friday morning.  She was the widow of the late D.A. 
Holland, well-known merchant of our town, who died some years ago.  Mrs. 
Holland was a woman of genial and pleasant personality, always cheerful and 
friendly, a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and of the Woman’s 
Missionary Society.

   Mrs. Josephine Cornelia Holland was a native of Nansemond County, a 
daughter of the late Mark and Mrs. Caroline Beale Saunders, and is survived by 
two daughters, Mrs. George W. Hayes of Portsmouth and Mrs. W.T. Pace, Jr. of 
Franklin; two grandchildren, Miss Clyde Holland Hayes of Portsmouth and W.T. 
Pace, 3rd, of Franklin; three sisters, Mrs. W.J. Cross and Mrs. C.J. Cutchin 
of Franklin and Mrs. Gabie Howell of Suffolk; two brothers, H.P. and J.P 
Saunders of the community, several nieces and nephews and a large circle of 
friends.

   Funeral rites were held from her late residence Sunday afternoon at 2:30 
o’clock by her pastor, the Rev. R.D. Stephenson, burial following in the 
family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The pallbearers were: E.K. Brinkley, 
J.C. Eley, Carlton Cutchin, W.J. Cross, Jr., K.M. Thorsen, C.C. Vaughan, 3rd, 
Henry Fitzgerald and R.H. Powell.


Josephine Cornelia (SAUNDERS; Mrs. David A.) HOLLAND, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 25 Feb 1944, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Sect. 2, Plot 2A*), Franklin, 27 Feb 1944, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 3, 1944 

*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. 10, 1930) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h453d3ob.txt 


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