Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Raiford, Edith S. Cheyney, 1949 

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MRS. EDITH S. RAIFORD 

  Mrs. Edith S. Raiford of the Ivor community, widow of Hunter Raiford, died 
unexpectedly Tuesday morning, July 12, at the home of a sister, Mrs. A.W. 
Macey, in Sparta, N.J. 

  She is survived by three sons, Joseph Raiford of Ivor, Walker Raiford of 
Nashville, Tenn., and George H. Raiford of Victoria; a daughter, Mrs. Aden 
Powell; five grandchildren; one other sister, Mrs. Phoebe Cowling, also of 
Sparta; and two brothers, A.R. Cheyney of Arlington and Jesse Cheyney of 
Washington State. 

  Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at 
Corinth Friends Meetinghouse by Rev. Edmund Bloom, followed by burial in 
Rosemont Cemetery at Sedley.  The active pallbearers were Charles E. Neave, 
John Stephenson, T.M. Raiford, Herman Barnes, L.H. Babb and L.T. Saunders. 


Edith Sharpless (CHEYNEY; Mrs. Hunter Day) RAIFORD, 
b. 3 Feb 1871, Philadelphia, PA, d. 12 Jul 1949, at sister's home, Sparta, NJ, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 12 Sep 1941, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 44, No. 39, Fri., July 15, 1949, p. 9 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Rosemont list (S-56): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by SedleyFarmGirl - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #125055654. 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 12, 1941, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r163h5ob.txt 

Her parents, Joseph Sharpless and Ellen Roberts (MOORE) CHEYNEY, are buried 
   in the Friends Southwestern Cemetery, Upper Darby, Delaware Co., PA. 


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