Southampton County-Petersburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Harris, E. Gladys Simmons, 1924 

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     Mrs. W. Garland Harris. 

  PETERSBURG, VA., March 23.- Gladys Simmons Harris, wife of W. Garland 
Harris, died yesterday afternoon at the Petersburg Hospital.  She was 21 
years of age, and besides her husband leaves her mother, Mrs. R. F. Simmons, 
three sisters and three brothers, Misses Mary and Edna Simmons, Alva, 
Benjamin and Henry Simmons, of this city, and Mrs. S. H. Rollings, of 
Southampton County. 

  Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at the grave in 
Blandford Cemetery.  Rev. J. Calloway Robertson, pastor of Trinity M. E. 
Church, will officiate, assisted by Rev. H. P. Clark, pastor of Washington 
Street M. E. Church.


Elnora Gladys (SIMMONS; Mrs. W. Garland {Sr.}) HARRIS, of Petersburg, 
Southampton Co. native, d. in childbirth 22 Mar 1924, Petersburg, age 21,  
interred in Blandford Cemetery (Ward FF, Section 12, Square 5b*), Petersburg, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Mar. 24, 1924, p. 14, col. 2 

Additional information: 

*Find-A-Grave Memorial # 82851931.  According to the contributor, her infant 
   son William Garland Harris, Jr. (Memorial# 82851975) lived only 15 hours, 
   22 Mar 1924, and was buried (unmarked) in his mother's grave. 

She married 7 Apr 1923, in Petersburg.  Her husband remarried in 1927. 
   (source: FamilySearch.org "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940") 

Her father Benjamin's (donated, 1910) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s552b1ob.txt 

He is buried in the SEBRELL-SIMMONS family cemetery (Plot 11), Sebrell. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-3): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 


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