Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Marks, Bessie Kitchen, 1946 

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BESSIE KITCHEN MARKS

MRS. BESSIE KITCHEN MARKS DIES OF BURNS SUSTAINED LAST WEEK

   Mrs. Bessie Kitchen Marks, age 44, wife of Edwards L. Marks, died in 
Raiford Memorial Hospital in Franklin Friday night at 7:15 o'clock from 
horrible burns she suffered early that morning while starting a fire in 
a coal stove in the living room.

   Her daughter, Miss Ann Marks, who was in the bedroom directly above the 
living room was awakened by the exploding oil can and calls of her mother 
and rushed down to find her in flames.  Mr. and Mrs. Gillette Bryant, who 
live next door to the Marks' home heard her screams for help and seeing her 
in the rear doorway enveloped in flames, were the first to reach the scene. 
Mr. Bryant smothered the flames with blankets and summoned neighbors who 
quickly gathered and put out the fire in the house which was confined to 
the one room doing extensive damage.  Mrs. Marks was rushed to the hospital 
which was notified by telephone of her coming.

   Mr. Marks was at his work in Norfolk at time.  Her brother, J. Hinton 
Kitchen, who made his home with his sister, had left for his work in Courtland 
only a few minutes before the tragedy.

   Mrs. Marks was the daughter of the late John H. and Mrs. Blanche Williams 
Kitchen of Courtland.  She was a consistent member of St. Luke's Episcopal 
Church in Courtland.

   Besides her husband she is survived by two daughters, Misses Ann Radcliffe 
and Shirley Fox Marks of Sebrell and two sons Edward L. Marks, III, U.S. Navy, 
and James Franklin Marks of Sebrell; three sisters, Mrs. N.L. Thomas, of 
Jeffs; Miss Irene Kitchen of Petersburg and Miss Mabel Kitchen of Courtland; 
one brother J. Hinton Kitchen of Sebrell.

   Funeral services were conducted at the grave in Riverside Cemetery in 
Courtland by the Rev. William Brayshaw of Christ Episcopal Church, Smithfield.

   The pallbearers were L.M. Marks, Leroy Magette, P.B. Davis, L.A. Clements, 
Hinton Marks, Frank Culpeper, V.S. Pittman and Ben Williams.


Bessie (KITCHEN; Mrs. Edward L. Jr.) MARKS, of Sebrell, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 22 Mar 1946, Franklin, age 44, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 24*), Courtland, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 29, 1946, p. 1 

*Bessie is buried with her parents. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

Her husband remarried and is buried with his second wife 
   in Section II, Plot 63. 

His obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Feb. 28, 1985, p. 18) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m620e4ob.txt 


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