Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Oliver, Alice S. Parker, 1927 

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ALICE SHERWOOD PARKER OLIVER

   Mrs. Alice S. Oliver, a former resident of Franklin, and widow of T.O.* 
Oliver, who died here about 25 years ago, passed away at the of home her 
daughter, Mrs. T.C. Graves of Stanardsville, Va., early Sunday morning, in 
her 77th year.  Mrs. Oliver was born in Suffolk but had spent practically 
all of her life in this town and was one of the oldest living members of 
the Franklin Baptist Church.

   She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Lee Fagan and Mrs. T.C. Graves of 
Stanardsville, Mrs. L.J. Allen of Washington and Mrs. J.T. Jones of Portsmouth 
and by two grandchildren, Oliver Fagan of Roanoke and Miss Sherwood Jones of 
Portsmouth.

   Interment was made Monday morning in the family burying ground at the old 
Wiggins homestead near Franklin, the services being conducted by Rev. R.D. 
Stephenson of the Franklin Baptist Church and Rev. Kenneth E. Burke of 
Sycamore Baptist Church.  The body bearers were: J.L. Wiggins and J.R. Wheeler 
of Edenton, J.F. Kitterman of Norfolk, J.E. Wiggins of Sunbury, N.C. and I.Q. 
Wiggins, Joe Bynum Gay, J.A. Weede and J.T. Edwards.


Alice Sherwood (PARKER; Mrs. Thomas W.) OLIVER, formerly of Franklin, 
b. Suffolk, d. 27 Mar 1927, Stanardsville, age 77, 
interred in the WIGGINS family cemetery*, near Franklin, 28 Mar 1927, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 1, 1927, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-31): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/ivor.txt 

Alice applied for a pension in in 1919, not knowing her husband's unit. 
   The War Dept. stated he served in Co. I, 18th Mississippi Infantry, CSA. 


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