Southampton County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Stuart, Betsy Ricks, 1940 

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BETSY ELIZABETH RICKS STUART

   Mrs. Betsy Elizabeth Stuart died quietly in her home in Portlock November 7 
about 5 o’clock in the afternoon.  Mrs. Stuart was the daughter of the late 
W.M. and Sarah Elizabeth Ricks and was 50 years of age at the time of her 
death.  Funeral services were held last Saturday in the Purviance Funeral Home 
in Boykins at 2:00 p.m. with the Rev. A.W. Coates of Drewryville officiating. 
Music was furnished by the Hebron Church choir and interment was made in the 
Hebron cemetery.

   Mrs. Stuart is survived by her husband, D.D. Stuart of Portlock; two sons, 
Russell and Elwood Stuart of Portlock; two daughters, Mrs. Irene Murden and 
Mrs. Ura Lee Pettigrew, both of Portlock, and the following brothers and 
sisters; Mrs. Emmett Worrell and Mrs. P.A. Sadley of Petersburg; Mrs. R.C. 
Johnson of Richmond; G.C. Ricks of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; D.C. Ricks of Capron; 
R.E. Ricks of Boykins and W.M. Ricks of Burlington, N.C.

   Pallbearers were: R.E. Ricks, D.C. Ricks, G.C. Ricks, Richard Ricks, Jr., 
Franklin Ricks and W.W. Pettigrew.


Elizabeth "Betsy" (RICKS; Mrs. David D.) STUART, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 7 Nov 1940, at home, Portlock (Portsmouth), age 50, 
interred in Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery*, 9 Nov 1940, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 15, 1940, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-55): 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

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