Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Morel, Minnie B. Rawls, 1921 

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MINNIE RAWLS MOREL

MRS. MINNIE MOREL TAKES OWN LIFE

   Franklin people were shocked beyond expression Thursday morning by the 
suicide of Mrs. Minnie B. Morel, one of our town’s most estimable and useful 
women.  She had been in ill health for a number of months and her physical 
condition becoming steadily worse, she was evidently driven to the desperate 
act by her bodily ills which had affected the mind and rendered her 
irresponsible.

   She accomplished her death early Thursday morning by tying a strong cord to 
the bed post and placing it around her neck leaped or rolled from her bed, 
strangulation causing her death almost instantly.

   The deceased was the daughter of the late Elisha Rawls of Nansemond county 
and was twice married, first to Charles Howell of Nansemond, who died a number 
of years ago, and later married J.L. Morel of this town who died suddenly in 
1918.  There was one son by her first marriage, Ralph Howell, who died about 
twelve years ago, and there survived her three sons, James, Meredith and Rawls 
Morel.  She also leaves two brothers, Dr. Ben Rawls of Richmond and Willie 
Rawls of Norfolk, and one sister, Mrs. Brock Jones of the Holy Neck community. 
She was in her forty-ninth year.

   Mrs. Morel was a faithful and consistent member of Franklin Christian 
Church, devoted to the Master’s cause and zealous in every department of 
church activity.  As a member of the Woman’s Missionary and Ladies Aid 
societies of her church she was ever ready to serve generously and without 
consideration of self.  She was a good neighbor and a woman of many fine 
qualities.  To the three manly and promising boys she leaves we would commend 
the memory of the long years of Mother’s love as she had so beautifully spent 
herself for them, assuring them that for those who knew and loved her the 
splendid service she had wrought in home and church and community falls as a 
beautiful curtain, woven of good deeds and unselfish ministries, over the 
unfortunate act which brought relief to the tortured body.

   Funeral services will be conducted from the home in High street this 
(Friday) afternoon at 3:30 o’clock conducted by her Pastor, Dr. C.H. Rowland, 
interment following in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The pallbearers will be J.A. 
Williams, L.B. Norfleet, L.R. Jones, J.B. Gay, W.H. Norfleet, E.L. Beale, 
W.H. Jones and E.C. Beale.


Minnie B. (RAWLS HOWELL; Mrs. James L.) MOREL, 
Nansemond Co. native, suicide 9 Jun 1921, at home, Franklin, age 49, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 16*), Franklin, 
   10 Jun 1921, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 10, 1921, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Her second husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 15, 1918, p. 1), with their 
   marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m640j1ob.txt 


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