Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parker, Freddie, 1913 

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FREDDIE PARKER

DEATH OF MISS FREDDIE PARKER

   Miss Freddie Parker, an aged and highly esteemed woman of our town, died 
suddenly in her home in Fourth Avenue Tuesday, July 1st, between noon and 
1 o’clock p.m.  She was at Mrs. A.M. Brownley’s, her next-door neighbor, about 
noon, and an hour later when Mrs. Brownley went over to Miss Parker’s she 
found her lying dead. 

   "Miss Parker", as she was affectionately known here, was the last member 
living in the county of one of Southampton’s most prominent families.  She was 
born in August 1850 at the old family home about two miles from Courtland now 
known as the "Ferguson" place, the daughter of James and Martha Vaughan 
Parker.  She was one of a family of ten children and had three brothers, who 
won prominence in their professions, and figured largely in the county’s 
affairs in their day;  Dr. Frank Parker of Sussex county, Dr. Wm. Parker, who 
practiced medicine in Jerusalem (now Courtland) for many years, and Thomas 
Parker, a civic lawyer of the county, who gave his life on a Confederate 
battlefield.  She was an aunt of W.H. Parker, generally known as Will? Parker, 
who was an able body? defense? Lawyer and a Commonwealth Attorney of 
Southampton county, and an aunt of Dr. E. M. Parker of Emporia and of Mrs. 
Frances DeBerry who lives near Branchville.  She was also related to Col. L.R. 
Edwards, Mrs. A.L. Gardner and Mrs. Jno. C. Parker of this town.  She, with 
two maiden sisters, moved to Franklin about thirty years ago.  Miss Freddie, 
although poor as the world regards material things, was nevertheless rich in 
the graces of Christianity and a high and noble character and possessed a 
sunny and optimistic disposition.  She numbered many friends in Franklin, and 
was a useful and consistent member of the Franklin Baptist church, and had 
been zealous in its service for more than twenty-five years. 

   The interment was held in the family burying ground on the farm where she 
was born and reared Thursday at 1 o’clock P.M., the services being conducted 
by Rev. Jesse McCarter, who delivered an appropriate and tender discourse from 
this text;  "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterword receive me to 
glory.  Whom have I in heaven but thee:  and there is none upon earth that I 
desire beside thee".  Psalms 72:24-25.  A large number of her life-long 
friends were present and the floral tributes laid on the grave of this good 
woman were unusually pretty in design.  The pallbearers were;  J.L. Camp, J.R. 
Knight, J.C. Parker, R. Henry Cobb, E. Frank Story, Claude J. Edwards, Dr. 
A.P. Cutchin and A.W. Hayes. 


Ms. Freddie PARKER, 
b. Aug 1850, near Courtland, d. 1 Jul 1913, at home, Franklin, 
interred in the family cemetery, the FERGUSON place*, near Courtland, 
   4 Jul 1913, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 4, 1913 

*location not known (Dec 2012) to the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project. 

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