Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Mary C. Johnson, 1966 

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MARY CORNELIA JOHNSON JOHNSON 

   NEWSOMS - A funeral service for Mrs. Mary Cornelia Johnson was conducted 
Tuesday at 3 p.m. in new Newsoms Baptist Church by the Rev. Allen Lawrence, 
pastor of the church.  Burial was in the Black Jack Cemetery with W.J.M. 
Holland & Sons in charge.

   Pallbearers were Paul Harris, Paul Pope, Raleigh Johnson, Edward Johnson, 
Cecil Johnson, Emmett Pope, Clinton Blythe and Floyd Pope.

   Mrs. Johnson, 79, died Sunday afternoon in an Enfield, N.C. nursing home.

   She was the widow of John Edward Johnson and the daughter of Albert and 
Mrs. Lydia Griffin Johnson.  She had spent most of her life in Newsoms and 
was a native of Hertford, N.C.

   She was a member of the Newsoms Baptist Church and the church’s Women’s 
Missionary Society.

   She is survived by three sons, John Thomas Johnson, Wingate Ray Johnson, 
Joseph A. Johnson of Newsoms; three daughters, Mrs. W.A. Cooke of Boykins, 
Mrs. James J. Cooke of Newsoms, and Mrs. William M. Slarkman Jr., of 
Chesapeake; two brothers, James H. Johnson of Norfolk and Arthur Johnson 
of Capron; one sister, Mrs. Haley Pope of Boykins; 14 grandchildren, and 11 
great grandchildren.


Mary Cornelia (JOHNSON; Mrs. Johnnie E.) JOHNSON, formerly of Newsoms, 
Hertford Co., NC native, d. 14 Aug 1966, Enfield, NC, age 79, 
interred in Blackjack Oak (Black Jack) Cemetery*, 16 Aug 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 18, 1966, p. 3 

*Her parents are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-35&36): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt 


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