Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parker, Hattie R. Turner, 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ HATTIE TURNER PARKER MRS. GEORGE H. PARKER Mrs. Hattie Turner Parker, the beloved wife of Geo. H. Parker died at her home in High Street, Franklin, on Wednesday afternoon about 2:30 o'clock, in her thirty-first year* after a brief illness from pleurisy. She was the daughter of the late M.W. Turner and Mrs. Fannie B. Turner of Courland, was educated at the Southern Female Seminary, Buena Vista, Va. and was a resident of Courtland until her marriage in 1908*. It is no easy thing to write of the heartbreak of a friend - when George Parker brought his bride to Franklin a little less than ten years ago, the whole town wished them happiness. Both of the young people were well and favorably known here and in the county and the union seemed a particularly felicitous one. Sharing together the joys and sorrows attendant upon all normal lives, the friendships which they made were many as the natural complement of a happy and well-ordered home. To them were born a son and a daughter, Hinson, age seven, and Frances, age five, two unusually attractive and lovable children. To their friends and loved ones who see the home in sorrow and its hopes apparently blasted by the hand of death there comes the inevitable Why? and a griping pain takes hold of human hearts that grope in a vain attempt to fathom an infinite purpose with a finite understanding. Mrs. Parker was a young woman of an exceptionally gracious personality and was essentially a home-maker, giving her life freely for her husband and the little ones. She was a loyal and useful member of the Methodist Church and was faithful to its every obligation being an especially valued worker in the Sunday school and woman’s auxiliary organizations of the church. Besides husband and children, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Fannie B. Turner of Courtland, one brother Mark W. Turner of Wilmington, N.C., and by a large circle of relatives in the county. The funeral services were conducted from High Street M.E. Church by Rev. R.M. Chandler at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The building was crowded with friends of the deceased and of the family, townspeople, who were drawn into a common bond of sympathy with the grief-stricken ones in the loss of wife and mother, and the services were beautiful in simplicity, sincere in the sentiments expressed by the pastor and appealing to a sympathetic chord in every heart. The interment was made in Poplar Spring Cemetery, God's quiet acre where so many tender memories are kept verdant for our people, where so many sacred ties bind us and maintain our faith in the Life Eternal and as we looked upon the flowers covering the mound we were impressed not so much by their fragrant beauty as by the comforting promise which they gave: "That He will give them back - Bright pure and beautiful - We know He will but keep Our own and His until we fall asleep" The active pallbearers were Geo. R. Hayes, Joe Byrum Gay, E.T. FitzGerald, Roger I. Beale, R.A. Pretlow, Ernest Barrett of Franklin, Sam Stubbs of Norfolk and W.J. Story of Courtland. The honorary pallbearers were General C.C. Vaughan, J.F. Bryant, J.C. Beale, W.H. Norfleet, R.C. Campbell, Sol W. Rawls, Dr. J.C. Rawls*, A.L. Gardner, Jr., W.B. Simpson, W.T. Pace, P.R. Camp, J.A. Weede, L.T. Jones, Dr. W.E. Snipes, E. Frank Story, J.A. Pretlow, S.R. Nicholson, G.T. Stephenson, J.G. Vann, Dr. E. A. deBordenave, W.H. Lankford, J.A. Williams, B.L. Holt, J.V. Boone, G.M. Whitley, J.N. Bell, J.J. Bristow, Claude J. Edwards, Harry Steinhardt, Powell Eley, Dr. W.H. Arthur, T.L. Parker, J.E. Moyler, C.W. Gary, G.L.H. Johnson, J.W. Camp, W.C. Watson, E.L. Beale, Elliott L. Story, Paul Scarborough of Franklin; Dr. E.F. Reese, C.L. Grizzard of Courtland; Horace Gray, Charles Foster of Waverly; John King of Suffolk. Hattie R. (TURNER; Mrs. George H. Sr.) PARKER, Courtland native, d. 17 Apr 1918, at home, Franklin, age 31*, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 7/8; unmarked**), Franklin, 17 Apr 1918, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 19, 1918, p. 1 **Added to cemetery list. Her husband remarried and is buried with his second wife. Hattie's mother & son G. Hinson PARKER Jr. are also in the same plot. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt *Additional information: Marriage date above is wrong- GEORGE HINSON PARKER, 21, S, IOW CO., SO.CO., MERCHANT, S/O GEORGE HENDERSON AND ANNIE F. GREENHOW PARKER M. 12-04-1907 SO.CO., VA. BY REV. W.G. PARKER HATTIE REBECCA TURNER, 21, SO.CO., SO.CO., D/O MARCUS W. AND "FANNIE" FRANCES ELIZABETH BELL TURNER [Groom was styled George H. Jr. here, despite variance with father's middle name] (Southampton Co. MB13:93; transcribed & annotated by Bruce Saunders: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/mb13pt.txt) Her husband's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Nov. 18, 1967, p. 16) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p626g3ob.txt Hattie's death certificate (1918-374-11088) gives b. Aug. 2nd, 1887, and d. Apr. 18, 1918, age 31 - an internal inconsistency, which doesn't agree with marriage record, either. Further, the obit was published on Friday, so the funeral must have been on Thursday, and she must have died on Wednesday the 17th. Attending physician J.C. (Joel Cutchin) Rawls was one of the honorary pallbearers. An abstract of the death certificate is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/deaths/w300t1dc.txt Her parents' marriage record is appended to the death certificate. The 1900 Census gives b. Aug 1886. Her widowed mother appears as a Courtland hotel keeper. Image at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/census/1900/62-02b.gif Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p626h1ob.txt