Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Presson, Lelia A. Whitfield, 1949 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Virginia Deaths 9 June 1949 Mrs. Lelia Anne Presson (dob: 4/1/1869) Dendron June Mrs. Lelia Anne Presson 80, died in a Richmond hospital this morning. She is survived by four daughters Mrs. R. A. Kearney, of Phoebus: Mrs. George C. Ballentine, of Richmond; Mrs. A. N. Jordan, of Dendron, and Mrs. E. A. Leake, of Richmond; two sons, J. R. Presson of Richmond and L. S. Presson of Newark, N. J.; two brothers, Samuel Tilden Whitfield of Virginia Beach, and Junius Elisha Whitfield of Richmond; two sisters, Mrs. A. J. Hancock, of Sedley and Mrs W. T. Johnson of Ivor, nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The body will be taken from the home to the Dendron Baptist Church at 1 p. m. Friday and will lie in state until 2:30 p, m., the hour of the funeral. Dr. J. E. White will officiate. Burial will be in the Wakefield Cemetery. [Transcriber note: Obituary has name misspelled as "Persson"] Lelia Anne (WHITFIELD; Mrs. W.H.H.) PRESSON, b. 1 Apr 1869, Southampton Co., d. 9 Jun 1949, Richmond, interred in Wakefield Cemetery, 10 Jun 1949, donated obit, newspaper unknown, June 9, 1949 Additional information: W.H.H. Presson, 28, single, b. & res. Southampton, sn/o Jas. H. & Martha J. Presson, Farmer Lelia A. Whitfield, 17, single, b. & res. Southampton, dt/o Jno. W. & Louisa Whitfield m.lic. 14 Feb 1887, by clerk J.B. Prince m. 17 Feb 1887, at the brides Parents, Southampton, by James E. Stephenson (Southampton Co. MB6:164) Her parents are buried in a WHITFIELD family cemetery, near Berlin. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 7 (VII-29): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol7.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dale Whitfield (Whitfield65@aol.com), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p625l1ob.txt