Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Stephenson, A. Alice Stephenson, 1929 

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AURELIA ALICE STEPHENSON STEPHENSON

   Mrs. Aurelia Alice Stephenson died at her home, Unity, this county, 
Tuesday, August 27, in the 84th year of her life.  She was the widow of the 
late Mills Everett Stephenson and the daughter of Alfred Turner Stephenson 
and Elizabeth Ann Summerell.  She is survived by two sons, Percy Summerell 
Stephenson and Alfred Gordon Stephenson, both prominent citizens of Norfolk; 
one brother, C.T. Stephenson, and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret D. Branch and 
Miss Lina Stephenson, all of the Unity community, besides a large family 
connection.

   Funeral services were held at the residence Thursday afternoon by the Rev. 
R.D. Stephenson of Franklin, interment following in the family burying ground.

   The body bearers were: Victor and Hunter Branch, Claude Eaton, Bebe 
Townsend, F.C. Tilghman, A. Brooke Taylor, W.O. Bristow and C.T. Stephenson, 
Jr.*


Aurelia Alice (STEPHENSON; Mrs. Mills E.) STEPHENSON, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 27 Aug 1929, at home, Unity, age 84, 
interred in the STEPHENSON family cemetery (unmarked**), 
   Unity & Tucker Swamp Rds., 29 Aug 1929, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 30, 1929 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 5 (V-7): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol5.txt 

She & her husband could be buried elsewhere.  Mills' bro Charles is bd. 
   in a STEPHENSON family cemetery on Millfield Rd. (MV-I-13). 
Their paternal grandparents are likely bd. in the Welborn STEPHENSON 
   family cemetery, on Clayton Rd. (MV-I-56). 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

*The son of her bro Cadmus Turner Stephenson was named Cadmus Williams 
   Stephenson - not C.T. Jr. 

Alice applied for a Confederate widow's pension in Mar 1925.  Her husband 
   Mills Everett Stephenson served as 1st Sgt. in Co. I, 24th Va. Cav., CSA. 
   They married in Jun 1871 - the 21st according to her application, but 
   the 18th by the Southampton Co. records (MB1A:454; M.Reg. p. 42 #42). 
   Mills applied for a Confederate pension in 1918 and died Jan 1920. 


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and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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