Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Porter, Frances A. Edwards, 1919 

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FRANCES "FANNIE" ABBITT EDWARDS PORTER

  Died in Norfolk Sunday, January 26th, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Roscoe 
H. Stephenson, Mrs. Frances A. Porter, widow of the late Robert A. Porter, in 
her twenty-third year.  While the deceased had been in ill health for several 
months, her death was due to pneumonia following influenza, the scourge 
snatching her from her loved ones even before their minds had been prepared 
for her going.  There is something about the suddenness of such deaths that 
seems to prevent one from grasping the full meaning of its inexorableness, and 
one wonders why the winter of death would so often come to darken and chill 
the springtime of Life.  Especially is this true when the one who is taken is 
of such an amiable disposition and of such a lovely Christian character as was 
Mrs. Porter.

  The deceased was the daughter of the late Newitt Edwards and of Mrs. Talitha 
F. Edwards.  Her husband preceded her to the grave four years ago, since which 
time she has made her home with her parents and recently with her sister in 
Norfolk.  She is survived by her mother, by three brothers, S.R. and Emmett L. 
Edwards of Norfolk, and Calvin Edwards of Franklin; by four sisters, Mrs. C.C. 
Blythe, and Mrs. J.V. Milteer of Franklin, Mrs. Roscoe H. Stephenson of 
Norfolk, and Miss Virgie E. Edwards of Newport News.  A host of friends and 
acquaintances grieve with the family in their loss.

  Funeral services were conducted at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery by 
Rev. J.A. Chapman, pastor of High Street Methodist Church, of which the 
deceased had been a lifelong member.  The pall-bearers were Fletcher Porter of 
Newsoms, Roscoe H. Stephenson, S.R. and Emmett L. Edwards of Norfolk and Lloyd 
and Fletcher Whitley of Franklin.


Frances Abbitt "Fannie" (EDWARDS; Mrs. Robert A.) PORTER, formerly of Franklin, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 26 Jan 1919, at sister's home, Norfolk, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 21A*), Franklin, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 31, 1919, p. 1 

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


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