Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Leigh, Manie Caroline, 1900 

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MANIE CAROLINE LEIGH

COURTLAND CONTRIBUTIONS

   October 3, - Miss Manie Caroline Leigh, the oldest daughter of Mrs. Mary 
Leigh and the late Richard H. Leigh, of Southampton County, departed this life 
on Friday, September 28, 1900, at 5 o'clock p.m., in the eighteenth year of 
her age.  It was only a few months ago that this most amiable young lady was a 
student at the Suffolk College, in the bloom of health, pursuing her studies 
with great success, and looking forward with the brightest anticipations to 
the time of her graduation at the end of the next session. 

   About the first of last May she was taken sick, and returned to the home of 
her aunt, Mrs. M.A. Nicholson, at Assamoosick, Va., in the hope of regaining 
her health.  Here she received the very best attention at the hands of her 
skillful physician, her loving aunt, and other devoted friends, but every 
effort to save her was unavailing and the gentle spirit which had made a home 
full of sunshine and gladdened the hearts of its happy inmates soared aloft to 
mansions of celestial brightness and glory. 

   Her funeral took place last Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the solemn 
services being conducted by Rev. C.H. McGhee.  The following gentlemen acted 
as pallbearers: Active - J.W. Urquhart, Jr., Chas. H. Sebrell, Chas. F. 
Urquhart, Bins Briggs, Vernon Thorpe, John Leigh, Dr. Emmett F. Reese and B.W. 
Sebrell.  Honorary - F.G. Barker, E.F. Reese, Dr. J. Emmett Sebrell, R.F. 
Briggs, W.W. White, W.S. Briggs, E. Whitfield, S.V. Camp and J. Ben Davis.  A 
large concourse of sympathizing friends followed the funeral cortege to the 
family cemetery, and as the sun sank below the western horizon its glory was 
reflected on an affluence of flowers, whose beauty and fragrance were typical 
of the young life just ended - doomed, like the flowers, to early decay. 


Manie Caroline LEIGH, Suffolk College student, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 28 Sep 1900, age 18, 
interred in the family cemetery*, 30 Sep 1900, 
"The Suffolk News-Herald" (Suffolk, VA), Oct. 2, 1900, p. 2 

*location not known (May 2015) to the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project. However, her cousin Charles Nicholson LEIGH was 
   buried in a LEIGH family cemetery near Drewryville, then moved in 1981 to 
   Thomas Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery, Drewryville. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Drewryville list (D-18): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/drewryvl.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 2, 1934), which gives this 
   decedent's name as Mary, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/l200m4ob.txt 

Manie appears in the 1900 Census with cousin Charles in the household of their 
   paternal aunt Mary Ann (LEIGH; wid/o Chas.W.) NICHOLSON. 
(Courtland, Jerusalem Dist. {e.d. 62}, Southampton Co., VA - dwl 363/fam 365) 


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/l200m1ob.txt