Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Urquhart, Eliza B., 1935 

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ELIZA BLOUNT URQUHART

   Miss Eliza Blount Urquhart, member of an old and distinguished Southampton 
family, died at Willoughby Beach Tuesday afternoon after an illness of several 
months.  Miss Urquhart was a daughter of the late Judge Joseph W. Urquhart and 
Mrs. Mary Frances Ridley Urquhart, of "Anselma," this county, and was 
prominently connected with a number of Southampton's oldest families.  She is 
survived by four brothers, T.R. and J.R. Urquhart of Norfolk, J.B. Urquhart of 
Columbia, S.C., and C.F. Urquhart of Courtland, and one sister, Miss Fannie R. 
Urquhart of Washington.

   Miss Urquhart taught for 17 years in the National Park Seminary, Forest 
Glen, Maryland, and had been a frequent visitor in the county, while making 
her home in Washington.  Funeral services were conducted from St. Luke's 
Episcopal Church, Courtland, where the deceased had been a consistent 
communicant since childhood, Thursday afternoon the Rev. J. Sutherland-Watt, 
former rector of Nottoway Parish, reading the service.  Burial was made in the 
family plot in Riverside Cemetery, Courtland, the active pallbearers being: 
C.F. Urquhart, John Urquhart, R.A. Pretlow, Dr. P.P. Causey, Churchill G. 
Ridley, Robert Reese, H.L. Land of Suffolk and Senator W.H. S. Burgwyn of 
Jackson, N.C.


Eliza Blount URQUHART, of Washington, DC, Forest Glen, MD teacher, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 28 May 1935, Willoughby Beach, Norfolk, age 60, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 21*), Courtland, 
   30 May 1935, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 31, 1935, p. 5 

*Buried in her parents' family plot. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

Her maternal grandparents are buried in a RIDLEY family cemetery, "Rock Hill" 
   plantation.  SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cem's, Vol. 2 (II-47): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 


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