Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Matthews, Ethel M. Johnson, 1916 

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ETHEL MAY JOHNSON MATTHEWS 

  Mrs. G.E. Matthews gently passed to her lasting Sleep Friday afternoon just 
as the sun was passing beyond the western hills.  Despite the fact that she 
had been ill for two weeks, her death was a shock to the community, for her 
condition was not generally deemed so extreme. 

  Funeral services were conducted from their handsome new residence Saturday 
at one o'clock by her pastor, Mr. Spruill, assisted by Mr. Sutton.  The 
pallbearers were M.J. Boling, W.A. Teague, L.L. Wrenn, I.S. London, M.M. Fox 
and Ed. Woody. 

  The remains were carried to Virginia Saturday afternoon and interred in the 
Johnson family graveyard near Zuni.  Accompanying the remains were her 
husband, G.E. Matthews; brother, Bradley Johnson; and Walter Matthews and 
Millard Fox, the last name being sent by the Masonic and Pythian Lodges of 
Siler City.  The funeral party arrived at Zuni Sunday morning, and in the 
afternoon at three Rev. A.B. Dunnaway conducted services at Tucker Swamp 
church, two miles from Zuni, following which the interment was at the family 
graveyard one mile distant. 

  Mrs. Matthews was in her 36th year and prior to her marriage was Miss Ethel 
Mae Johnson, of Southampton County, Virginia.  In November, 1900, she was 
married to G.E. Matthews, and they moved to Siler City in 1908, where he is a 
successful druggist.  She was a member of the Baptist church, and identified 
with the church work, having in charge a Sunday school class of young boys. 
Her death makes the fourth death in the Johnson family since Christmas. 


Ethel May (JOHNSON; Mrs. George Edgar) MATTHEWS, 
b. 12 Jul 1880, Southampton Co., 
d. 12 May 1916, at home, Siler City, Chatham Co., NC, 
interred in the JOHNSON family cemetery*, near Zuni, 14 May 1916, 
"Siler City (NC) Grit," Wed., May 17, 1916, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

Site not known (Jan 2025) to the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} 
   Cemetery Project. 

No Find a Grave Memorial 

D.Cert. 330 (Siler City #7) gives her mother as Mary A. (SPIVEY; Mrs. W.E.) 
   JOHNSON. 

Rather, her mother was Alice Elizabeth SPIVEY (1853 - ca. 1901), daughter of 
   George W. & Mary SPIVEY, who m. William E. JOHNSON (b. 1846), son of Jesse 
   H. & "Polly" Mary Catherine (JOHNSON) JOHNSON, 15 Mar 1870. 
   (Southampton Co. MB1A:364; M.Reg. p. 35 #31) 

Her father (b. 1846) was a Confederate veteran.  He 2m. Laura E GREGORY 
   13 Jan 1903.  He killed Laura, then himself, 2 Jan 1916.  Articles on the 
   incident ("Richmond Times-Dispatch" & "Alexandria Gazette," Jan. 3, 1916) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/news/19160103td.txt 

Her widower (1878 - 1949) 2m. Lena (KING) POTEAT 29 Dec 1919 in 
   Montgomery Co., NC.  They are buried in Cross Creek Cemetery #3, 
   Fayetteville, Cumberland Co., NC. 


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