Southampton-Sussex County-Virginia Beach City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Matthews, Nancy Barham, 1953 

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NANCY BARHAM MATTHEWS

   Mrs. Nancy Barham Matthews, 82, widow of John Benjamin Matthews and a 
former resident of Franklin, died late Wednesday evening, September 30, 
in a Norfolk hospital.

   The deceased was the daughter of the late Henry Thomas and Lucy Jane 
Harding Barham of Southampton County.  A member of High Street Methodist 
Church, for the past several years she had made her home at Virginia Beach 
with her daughter, Virginia Matthews Beaman.* 

   Besides her daughter, Mrs. Matthews is survived by three sons, Leslie B. 
Matthews of Norfolk and J. Fenton and Roy T. Matthews of Franklin; and six 
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

   Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o’clock tomorrow (Friday) afternoon 
in the chapel of W.J.M. Holland & Sons, followed by burial in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery.

   Rev. James W. Turner, pastor of High Street Methodist Church, and Rev. 
Moultrie Guerry, D.D., rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk, will 
officiate.

   Active pallbearers will be Walter C. Beaman, Jr., Donald Beaman, Roy T. 
Matthews, Jr., Robert C. Councill, Jr., Edward F. Gilliam, and G. Carl 
Steinhardt.

*daughter's name inserted - omitted, as originally published 

Nancy "Nannie" (BARHAM; Mrs. John B.) MATTHEWS, of Virginia Beach, 
formerly of Wakefield & Franklin, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 30 Sep 1953, Norfolk, age 82, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 34A*), Franklin, 
   2 Oct 1953, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 1, 1953 

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

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 13, 1928) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m320j3ob.txt 

His death certificate, with their marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/deaths/m320j1dc.txt 


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