Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Story, Margaret E. Williams, 1923 

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MARGARET E. WILLIAMS STORY

MRS. MARGARET E. STORY DIES AT HER HOME HERE

   Mrs. Margaret E. Story of this town died suddenly at her home in First 
Avenue on Friday, September 14, at about 2:30 o’clock p.m.  She had been in 
poor health for several months and while the end might have been expected at 
any time, it was nevertheless a shock to her children, loved ones and friends, 
and many there were who were privileged to call this good woman friend and 
whom she had befriended by those little acts of neighborly kindness with 
which her life was filled.

   Mrs. Story was the daughter of the late Spratley L. and Susan Frances 
Williams and was in her seventy-ninth year.  She was preceded to the grave 
many years ago by her husband, the late Elliott L. Story.  The deceased was 
born in Courtland and for the greater part of her life lived at the old Story 
homestead near Nottoway Chapel M.E. Church until she removed to this town. 
Joining Nottoway Chapel as a girl of fifteen, she had been a faithful, loyal 
and consistent member of that church until her death, and had constantly 
exemplified her faith in the splendid Christian life which she lived.

   She is survived by three children, E. Frank Story, Mrs. Ashley P. Cutchin 
and Miss Susie Story, all of this town; by three grandchildren, Ashley 
Cutchin, Jr., Miss Margaret Cutchin and Frank Story Cutchin, and by a wide 
circle of friends throughout the county.

   Funeral services were conducted from her late residence in First Avenue 
Sunday morning, September 16, at 11 o’clock by the Rev. L.S. Flournoy, pastor 
of High Street M.E. Church, assisted by Dr. H.C. Pfeiffer, presiding elder of 
the Portsmouth - Newport News District.  One selection, "Nearer My God to 
Thee", a favorite hymn of Mrs. Story’s, was sung by the choir of the Methodist 
Church.  Interment was made in the family burying ground at the old Story 
homestead in the county, the pallbearers being; M.H. Moore, Judge Jas. L. 
McLemore, L.L. Manry, L.J. Bain, W.T Pace, J.A. Jackson, D.T. Prince and G.T. 
Caroon.


Margaret E. (WILLIAMS; Mrs. Elliott L.) STORY, d. 14 Sep 1923, age 79, 
interred in the STORY family cemetery, near Nottoway Chapel*, 16 Sep 1923, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 21, 1923, p. 1 

*Exact burial site not known (Jul 2017) to the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   but Nottoway Chapel is on Story Station Rd. (Rt. 650). 

Additional information: 

An abstract of her Death Certificate 712-23538 is posted at: 
    http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/deaths/s360m1dc.txt 

Margaret's husband Elliott L. STORY kept a series of diaries 1838-76, six 
   volumes of which are held by the Virginia Historical Society, and are 
   extensively cited in Daniel W. Crofts' "Old Southampton: Politics and 
   Society in a Virginia County, 1839-1869," (Charlottesville: University 
   Press of Virginia, 1992). 

They were m. 23 Oct 1872, by Geo. Rives. (Southampton Co. MB2:66) 

Elliott 1m. 19 Jun 1856 Mary E. JUDKINS, dt/o Jas. H. & Martha. 
   (Southampton Co. MB1:35; M.Reg. p. 3 #40) 


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