Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Owens, Helen Griffin, 1931 

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HELEN GRIFFIN OWENS

   Mrs. Helen Griffin Owens died at the Protestant Hospital, Norfolk, 
August 28 after a brief illness.  She was 73 years of age and had made her 
home in Franklin since 1900, being a native of Southampton County, the 
daughter of the late Irvin and Mrs. Mayab Griffin of Black Creek community. 
In 1885 she was married to J.B. Owens of Nansemond County who died in 1912.

   Mrs. Owens is survived by a son, J.R. Owens of Jackson, Miss., and by four 
daughters, Miss Ruth M. Owens, Mrs. W.O. Bogart and Mrs. L.J. Fisher of 
Franklin and Mrs. Junius W. Pulley of Courtland, and by ten grandchildren. 
Besides the immediate family she has five nieces, Mrs. G.C. Niblett of Ivor, 
Mrs. H. Warren Stephenson, Mrs. J.J. Bristow and Miss Mabel Edwards of 
Atlanta, and Mrs. P.L. Barrett of Altavista, Va.

   She was one of Franklin’s best loved citizens, living a quiet, unobtrusive 
and useful life, but most highly esteemed and appreciated by many friends. 
The interest and welfare of her church had always claimed her loyal service in 
the faithful keeping of every obligation of her religion.  Joining Black Creek 
Church as a girl, she had maintained her membership in the Franklin Baptist 
Church ever since moving to this town, and her splendid work in the Woman’s 
Missionary Society is perpetuated in the "Helen Owens Circle" of that 
organization.

   Funeral services were held from her late home in First Avenue Saturday 
afternoon at 4 o’clock, conducted by her Pastor, Rev. R.D. Stephenson, 
assisted by Rev. Gordon L. Price of Courtland and Rev. J.R. Johnson of Galax, 
Va., in the presence of a large assembly of friends.  Interment was made in 
the family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the pallbearers being: D.T. Prince, 
R.J. Tucker, Dr. A.P. Cutchin, W.B. Simpson, W.O. Bristow, Roger I. Beale, 
Jno. C. Parker, Jr. and Paul Scarborough.

   Among relatives and friends from a distance who attended the funeral here 
were: Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Niblett and Miss Mabel Edwards of Ivor, Mrs. P.L. 
Barrett and Miss Frances Barrett of Altavista, Va., Mr. and Mrs. H.W. 
Stephenson and Mrs. J.J. Bristow of Atlanta, Mrs. R.B. Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. 
Owen Parker and Mrs. Cross of Whaleyville, Mr. and Mrs. O.B. Hayes of Norfolk, 
Mrs. Harvey Parker of Jackson, N.C., R.W. Owens of Williamsburg, Miss Louise 
Owens of Montgomery, Ala., Mr. and Mrs. B.W. Sebrell, Jr., Mrs. Monroe Harper, 
Mrs. Bean, Mrs. Emmett Warriner and A.M. Rawlings of Lawrenceville, and Mrs. 
Emmett King of Suffolk.


Helen (GRIFFIN; Mrs. John B.) OWENS, of Franklin, 
b. Southampton Co., d. 28 Aug 1931, Norfolk, age 73, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 26B*), Franklin, 
   29 Aug 1931, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 4, 1931, p. 5 

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

Additional information: 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 3, 1913) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/o520j1ob.txt 

J.B. Owens, 27, single, b. & res. Nansemond, 
   sn/o R.R. & Maria Owens, Merchant 
Helen Griffin, 26, single, b. & res. Southampton, 
   dt/o Irvin & Mayad [sic] Griffin 
m.lic. 18 Feb 1885, by clerk J.B. Prince 
m. 26 Feb 1885, Southampton Co., by J.F. Deans 
(Southampton Co. MB5:409) 

Irvin Griffin & Mayab (Maab, Mazob) Bradshaw 
m.bond 7 Nov 1844; sec/wit Willis Bradshaw; 
m. 13 Nov 1844 on the evening, by Putnam Owens 
(Southampton Co. M.Reg. 1750-1853, pp. 541, 725) 


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