Southampton-Bedford County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lawless, Emma C. Barker, 1923 

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EMMA C. BARKER LAWLESS

   Mrs. Emma Barker Lawless died this morning at about 12:30 o’clock at the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. Claude J. Edwards, in Clay street. She was in her 
seventy-fourth year and her death was caused by influenza. Mrs. Lawless was one 
of Franklin’s finest characters, a noble Christian woman, whose consecrated 
life had endeared everyone to her, and the universal sympathy of the community 
goes out to her aged husband, Dr. J.L. Lawless, a former Pastor of the Franklin 
Baptist Church, who is himself just recovering from an attack of the same 
malady.

   Mrs. Lawless was a native of Bedford County, Virginia, the daughter of Rev. 
Francis Marion Barker of this state, and is survived by her husband; one son, 
J.L. Lawless, Jr., of Richmond; five daughters, Mrs. Claude J. Edwards and Mrs. 
W.H. Arthur of Franklin, Mrs. J.H. Norfleet of Newberry, Fla., Mrs. D.H. 
Stevens of Richmond and Mrs. C. Mason Smith of Fredericksburg, and by four 
brothers, O.B. Barker of Lynchburg, Frank Barker of Washington, D.C., Dr. Will 
Barker of Buchanan, Va., and Fuller Barker of Salem, Va.

   The funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 11 o’clock from Mrs. 
Edwards’ residence in Clay street and interment will be made in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery.


FUNERAL OF MRS. J.L. LAWLESS

   The funeral of Mrs. Emma Barker Lawless, wife of Dr. J.L. Lawless of 
Franklin, whose death was recorded in last week’s News, took place on Saturday 
morning February 3, at 11 o’clock with a brief service at the grave in Poplar 
Spring Cemetery.

   Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the Franklin Baptist Church, of which Mrs. Lawless 
had been a loyal and useful member, read the scripture lessons, and Dr. C.H. 
Rowland, pastor of the Franklin Christian Church, made the beautifully 
appropriate talk on her life as he knew it though years of association with Dr. 
and Mrs. Lawless here while the former was Pastor of the Franklin Bapitst 
Church, Dr. Burton J. Ray, Ernest K. Brinkley, Mrs. Robert P. Rawls and Miss 
Cora Vaughan sang "Asleep in Jesus", and prayer was offered by Rev. L.S. 
Flournoy of the High Street M.E. Church.

   The pallbearers were Claude J. Edwards, Dr. W.H. Arthur and D.H. Stevens of 
Richmond, sons-in-law of Mrs. Lawless, and J.A. Pretlow, Franklin Edwards, 
Ryland Camp, John M. Camp and John C. Parker.

   Mrs. Lawless is survived by her husband, one son and five daughters, all of 
whom were with her at her death except Mrs. J.H. Norfleet of Newberry, Fla., 
who was prevented by illness from being present. Three brothers, O.B. Barker of 
Lynchburg, F.M. Barker of Washington, D.C., and Dr. W. C. Barker of Buchanan, 
Va., were her also.

   Mrs. Lawless was the daughter of the late Rev. Francis Marion Barker of 
Bedford County, Va., one of the best known and most prominent Baptist ministers 
of his day. The several years she spent in Franklin while her husband was a 
pastor here, as well as the latter years when she and Dr. Lawless made their 
home with Mr. and Mrs. Claude J. Edwards, were a benediction to our people and 
she was known and loved by all as an unusually splendid type of exemplary 
Christian womanhood.


Emma C. (BARKER; Mrs. J. Leland) LAWLESS, 
Bedford Co. native, d. 2 Feb 1923, at daughter's home, Franklin, age 73, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 87A*), Franklin, 
   3 Feb 1923, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 2, 1923, p. 1; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 9, 1923, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Her husband's obits ("Tidewater News," Nov. 2, 1928, p. 1 & 
   Nov. 9, 1928, p. 1) are posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/l420l1ob.txt


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