Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Person, Elizabeth N. Claud, 1919 

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ELIZABETH NORMAN CLAUD PERSON

DEATH of MRS. BETTIE N. PERSON

   After months and weeks of suffering from which she could get no relief, Mrs. 
Bettie Norman Person, wife of the late W.B. Person, died at her home here 
Sunday morning  at 11 o'clock, in her 66th year. The remains were taken to 
Person's M.E. Church Monday afternoon and interment was made at 3 o'clock in 
the family section of that historic old church yard. Her pastor, Rev. Porter 
Hardy, conducted the burial services and the pallbearers were Hon. E. Frank 
Story of Franklin, W.H. Rush of Branchville, E. R. Bryant, Geo. A. Powell, 
B. F. Britt, A.L. Knight, T.H. Porter and Walter H. Britt, all of Boykins. 
The mound was covered with numerous and handsome floral designs.

   Mrs.  Person was the daughter of the late J.W. and Frances N. Claud, and had 
spent her entire life in this, her native county, where she was well known and 
greatly beloved by a large circle of relatives and friends. In early life she 
became a Christian and united with the church at Person's where she took an 
active part in all the interests of the community until she moved to Boykins to 
make her home six years ago. It was during these last six years that the 
Boykins people have known her best. Moving her membership to the Boykins 
church, she became identified with all the activities of the church and was 
always in her place until failing strength took her away. For a long time, she 
taught the ladies' Bible class in the Sunday school, and at the time of her 
death she was president of the Woman's Missionary Society. She will be greatly 
missed in the whole community.

   She is survived by six children; Mrs. W.L. Bryant and Mrs. J.T. Turner of 
the Person's community, Mrs. J.R. Daughtrey of Norfolk, Mrs. E.M. Harris of 
Branchville, Jno. R. and Pat. T. Person, both of Boykins; and nine grand-
children.


[Elizabeth Norman "Bettie" (CLAUD; Mrs. W.B.) PERSON, 23 Feb 1919, age 66, 
 interred in Person's M.E. Church Cemetery, 24 Feb 1919, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 28 Feb 1919, p. 6] 

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