Southampton-Lancaster County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Story, Mary M. Peirce, 1979 

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MARY MOORE PEIRCE STORY

   Mrs. Mary Moore Peirce Story, 81, widow of Dr. Beaman Story, died suddenly 
at her home in Franklin on April 9, 1979.  She was a native of Lancaster Co., 
Va., and the daughter of the late Joseph Peirce and Janet C. Gilliam Peirce. 
She attended Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, and taught in the 
public schools of Franklin.  In 1922, she was married to Dr. Story, a 
prominent dentist who died May 10, 1971.  Mrs. Story was a member of the 
Franklin Book Club, and a charter member of Southampton Co. Historical 
Society.  She was a member before her marriage of St. Mary’s White Chapel 
Episcopal Church, Lancaster Co., and after her marriage, the Emmanuel 
Episcopal Church, Franklin.  She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Janet P. 
Whitehead of Eastville, Va., and widow of Winton Whitehead, and Miss Alice 
Clark Peirce of Franklin; two nieces, Miss Janet C. Whitehead of New York, 
N.Y., daughter of Mrs. Janet P. Whitehead, and Miss Jane Riddle Schwenck of 
Washington, D.C., daughter of the late Mrs. Eliza Peirce Schwenck.  Funeral 
services will be conducted in the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Franklin, 
Wednesday at 11 a.m. by the Rector Rev. Ben R. Duffy.  Burial will follow in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin.  The family has requested that no flowers. 
Wright Funeral Home, Franklin, in charge of arrangements.


Mary Moore (PEIRCE; Mrs. Beaman) STORY, former Franklin schoolteacher, 
Lancaster Co. native, d. 9 Apr 1979, at home, Franklin, age 81, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 47*), Franklin, 
   11 Apr 1979, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Apr. 10, 1979, p. 4 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Additional information: 

Her husband's obit & funeral notice ("Tidewater News, 1953) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s360b1ob.txt 

They m. 25 Nov 1922, Lancaster Co. 

Her parents m. 4 Apr 1894, Northumberland Co. 

They appear in the 1900 Census in White Chapel District, Lancaster Co. 
   (e.d. 45, p. 18B), a few houses down from her paternal grandparents. 

Her parents & paternal grandparents are buried in St. Mary's White Chapel 
   Episcopal Church Cemetery.  Find a Grave (Mem. #21416099 &c.) calls it 
   Saint Mary's Whitechapel Episcopal Churchyard. 

Her maiden name is fairly consistently spelled PEIRCE. 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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