Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Speight, Mary E. Edwards, 1928 

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Death Of Mrs. Speight 

  Mrs. J.O. Speight died at her home in Courtland, Thursday morning, May 24, 
at 6 o'clock, in the 81st year of her age.  Mrs. Speight was a loyal and 
consistent member of the Courtland Baptist Church and number many friends in 
the town and community.  Funeral services and burial will take place Friday 
at 1 o'clock at the old Edwards burial ground on the Franklin-Courtland road. 
Services conducted by her pastor, the Rev. R.E. Burke.  Pallbearers are E.F. 
Drake, L.W. Vaughan, Tyler Edwards, G.C. Kirkland, B.L. Edwards and R.L. 
Young.  Mrs. Speight is survived by her husband, one sister, Mrs. W.G. 
Edwards, of Suffolk, two nieces, Mrs. Z.V. Cross, of Whaleyville, Miss Sallie 
Lou Edwards, of Suffolk, four nephews, Joe, W.E., R.G., and H.C. Edwards, all 
of Courtland. 


Mary Eliza (EDWARDS; Mrs. James O.) SPEIGHT, 
b. 1846, Southampton Co., d. 24 May 1928, at home, Courtland, 
interred in the EDWARDS family cemetery*, 25 May 1928, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 6, No. 57, Mon., May 28, 1928, p. 5 

*Site not known (Jun 2022) to the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} 
   Cemetery Project.  She & her nephew Joseph Henry EDWARDS have been added 
   to an EDWARDS family cemetery on Unity Rd., where her brother-in-law 
   William G. EDWARDS is listed; all the graves there are unmarked. 
   William G. is presumably listed there because it is his brother's cemetery. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Family Cemeteries, Vol. II-4: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 

Their parents were Gilliam & Sarah R. (EDWARDS) EDWARDS. who m. in 1839. 
   (Southampton Co. M.Reg., pp. 489, 707) 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 12420 (Jerusalem #8), which give buried 
   "Old Home Place."  

Mary & James m. 3 May 1882 at her father's residence.  Their parents are 
   reversed in the m.recs. 
   (Southampton Co. M.Reg. {BVS copy} p. 348 #71; MB4:488) 

Her nephew Joseph appeared in the 1920 Census with her sisters Priscilla 
   EDWARDS & Margaret Ellen (EDWARDS; wid/o John H.) GRIFFIN in the first home 
   listed on the Franklin-Courtland road (Farm; dwelling #210; family #213) 


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