Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Knight, Lelia M. Bryant, 1965 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ LELIA M. KNIGHT COURTLAND - Mrs. Lelia M. Knight, age 76, former resident of Southampton County, died at a local hospital in Baltimore Thursday night after a short illness. She was the widow of Pete E. Knight and daughter of the late Benjamin F. and Melissa Pope Bryant of Southampton County. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Joseph H. Miller and Mrs. J. Herbert Lyons of Baltimore and five grandchildren. A funeral service was held in Armacost Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Ave., Baltimore, Saturday, after which the body was brought to W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home, Franklin, where it remained until Monday and taken to Riverside Cemetery Courtland, for another funeral service by the Rev. Byron S. Hallstead of Courtland Methodist Church. Lelia M. (BRYANT; Mrs. Peter A.) KNIGHT, formerly of Southampton Co., d. 3 Jun 1965, Baltimore, MD, age 76, interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 33A*), Courtland, 7 Jun 1965, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 7, 1965, p. 2 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 11, 1938, p. 4; "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 18, 1938, p. 7 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Riverside list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt Her husband's obits ("Tidewater News," Feb. 11 & 18, 1938) are posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/k523p1ob.txt Her parents are buried on in a BRYANT fam.cem. on Gray's Shop Rd., two miles north of Newsoms. SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 7 (VII-14): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol7.txt Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 22, 1933, p. 6) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b653b2ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/k523l1ob.txt