Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sarah Russell, Sarah R. Lamb, 1909 

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SARAH REBECCA LAMB HOLT HARRISON RUSSELL

MRS. SARAH RUSSELL

Died at Her Home in Blackwater - Sunday , January 17

Was a Native of Virginia, Where She Was Born on April 17, 1845

Left Three Daughters

(Blackwater Correspondence)

   After an illness of about ten days Mrs. Sarah Russell died at four o'clock, 
Sunday afternoon, January 17, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T.R. Kemp, 
with whom she lived.  The funeral took place at the Kemp residence Monday 
morning at 10:30 o'clock, the services being comducted by Revs. Shouse and 
Rainey.  Interment was in the Nelson cemetery.

   Mrs. Russell was born in Southampton Co., Va., April 17, 1845 and there for 
was at the time of her death, sixty-three years and nine months old*.  She 
leaves to mourn her death three daughters.  They are: Mrs. T.P. Newsome, of 
Emporia, Va., Mrs. John Crutcher, of Jefferson City, and Mrs. T.R. Kemp of 
Blackwater.  Ten grandchildren also survive her.

   Mrs. Russell was a typical southern woman and possessed the happy faculty 
of entertaining both old and young.  While many sorrows had come into her life 
she bore them all without a murmur.  She united with the Methodist Episcopal 
church at the age of thirteen and when the end came it found her completely 
resigned to God's will.  She was woman much loved by those who knew her best. 
Mrs. Russell was well know in Bunceton, where she lived a number of years ago. 
Her many friends here will learn of her death with deep regret. - Eds.


Mrs. Sarah Rebecca (LAMB HOLT HARRISON) RUSSELL, of Blackwater, MO, 
b. 17 Apr 1835?, Southampton Co., d. 17 Jan 1909, at daughter's home, 
interred in the Nelson Cemetery (unmarked), Nelson, MO, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Birthdate and age cannot be correct; 1835? 

James L.* Holt, 24, single, b. & res. Southampton Co., 
   sn/o Jesse & Jane Holt, Farmer [*lic. gives m.i. S; reg, L.] 
Sarah Rebecca Lamb, 20, single, b. & res. Southampton Co., 
   dt/o Benjamin & Susan Lamb 
m.lic. 19 Mar 1855, by deputy clerk Henry S. Howard 
m. 20 Mar 1855, Southampton Co., by John W. White (ret'd 21 May) 
(Southampton Co. MB1:21; M.Reg. p. 2 #71) 

James S. Harrison, 36, single, b. & res. Southampton Co., 
   sn/o Edwin & Mary Harrison, Farmer 
Sarah Rebecca Holt, 30, widowed, b. & res. Southampton Co., 
   dt/o Benjamin & Susan Lamb 
m.lic. 20 Nov 1865, by clerk L.R. Edwards 
m. 21 Nov 1865, Southampton Co., by John W. White 
(Southampton Co. MB1A:82; M.Reg. p. 15 #48) 


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