Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Simmons, Mary E. Kello, 1930 

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MARY ELISE KELLO SIMMONS

   Mrs. Mary Elise Simmons, wife of W.B. Simmons, died May 18, 1930, after an 
illness of more than two years which she bore with patience and cheerfulness. 
She was the daughter of the late Richard J. Kello and Mrs. Maud Thomas Kello and 
was born in Southampton County near Vicksville at the old Zeb Kello place 
October 2, 1872

   Early in life she became a member of Applewhite’s Methodist Church where she 
was a loyal and faithful communicant. She became the bride of William Butts 
Simmons, Sr., Dec. 12, 1893. She was a good woman and did well her part as wife 
and mother.

   Besides her husband she is survived by a son, W.B. Simmons, Jr.; three 
grandchildren, Mary Sue, William, III, and Marguerite Simmons; one sister, Miss 
Mattie Owen Kello; three brothers, J.G., S.T., and J.R. Kello, Jr., and a host 
of other relatives and friends.

   Interment was made in the family burying ground at the Kello home near 
Courtland. The services were conducted by Rev. C.H. Fielding and Rev. W.H. 
Riddick. The body bearers were: Dr. J.N. Applewhite, Jesse Vick, A.B. Nicholson, 
S.V. Camp, J.M. Nicholson, Sam Cobb, O.G. Porter and John Vincent, Jr.  Honorary 
pallbearers were: C.W. Vinson, Vernon Drake, J.T. Barham, C.R. Wade, A.E. 
Briggs, Lee Felts, T.A. Saunders, R.L. Nicholson, W.B. Hall, Ben MaHood, Ben 
Applewhite, Ed Marks, S.R. Westbrook, R.A. Simmons and Charlie Rowe. May God 
comfort those hearts that are lonely. They sorrow but they have a glowing hope 
that she has gone to her heavenly home.

   Among relatives and friends from a distance to attend the funeral were: Mrs. 
Charles Johnson, Miss Jennie Cobb, O.G. Porter, Samuel Kello, Misses Mary and 
Eleanora Warren, and Miss White of Portsmouth, Miss Sadie Anderson of Hampton, 
Miss Elizabeth Vincent, J.E. Vincent, and J.E. Vincent, Jr., of Suffolk, Mrs. 
Maggie Barrett of Ivor.


[Mary Elise (KELLO; Mrs. William B. Sr.) SIMMONS, 
 b. 2 Oct 1872, near Vicksville, d. 18 May 1930, 
 interred in the KELLO family cemetery*, Rose Hill Farm, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 23, 1930] 

[*located on the Rose Hill farm, Indian Town Rd. (Rt. 651), near Courtland. 
 Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, 
    Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (Vol. II-43): 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt] 

[Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mariah Kello Nunn, 
 William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com), and 
 Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
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