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.

[*Her husband was Thomas Williamson Oliver. (bs)] 

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

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