Southampton-Halifax County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Vincent, Frances L. Coates, 1960 

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Mrs. Lillian Vincent Is Buried on Sunday 

  NEWSOMS - A funeral service for Mrs. Lillian Vincent, who died Thursday 
afternoon, was held Sunday in Purviance Funeral Home, Boykins, by three 
Baptist pastors, the Rev. E. Mallary Binns of Newsoms, the Rev. Ben B. Ussery 
of Boykins and the Rev. Roland Pruette of Murfreesboro, N.C.  Burial was in 
Newsoms Cemetery. 

  Pallbearers were Leroy Dail, H.C. Bradshaw, Roy Bradshaw, Lemuel Rountree, 
J.R. Holloman, Howard Ellis, W.T. O'Berry, James Fuller and George Cook, 
deacons of the Newsoms church. 

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FRANCES LILLIAN COATES VINCENT 

   NEWSOMS - Mrs. Frances Lillian Coates Vincent died unexpectedly Thursday 
afternoon, Feb. 18, while visiting at a friend's home near here.

   Mrs. Vincent was a native of Halifax County but had lived here many years. 
She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Coates.*

   She was a member of Newsoms Baptist church, where she taught the Women's 
Bible Class for 20 years.  She was a member of the WCTU and taught in the 
public schools of Southampton County for many years.

   Surviving are her husband, Hugh Carroll Vincent of Newsoms; one son, Hugh 
Carroll Vincent, Jr., of Murfreesboro, N.C.; one daughter, Mrs. James C. 
Sakes of Pensacola, Fla.; four grandchildren and three sisters, Mrs. Mattie 
M. Mills, and Mrs. L.C. Herring, both of Kinston, N.C., and Mrs. W.H. 
Mottesheard of Roanoke.

   Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the Purviance 
Funeral Home in Boykins by the Rev. E. Mallary Binns of Newsoms Baptist 
Church, assisted by the Rev. Roland Prewett, Murfreesboro, N.C. Baptist 
Church and the Rev. Ben Ussery, of the Boykins Baptist Church.

   Burial was in Hollywood Hill Cemetery, Newsoms.

   Pallbearers were Leroy Dail, H.C. Bradshaw, Roy Bradshaw, Lemuel Rountree, 
J.R. Holloman, Howard Ellis, W.T. O'Berry, James Fuller and George Cook, all 
members of the Board of Deacons of Newsoms Baptist Church.


Frances Lillian (COATES; Mrs. Hugh Carroll) VINCENT, of Newsoms, teacher, 
b. 11 Mar 1892, Halifax Co., d. 18 Feb 1960, near Newsoms, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 21 Feb 1960, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 38, No. 44, Mon., Feb. 22, 1960, p. 3; 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Thurs., Feb. 25, 1960, Sect. 2, p. 4 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-72): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Betty Smith - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #35444161. 

D.Cert. 6210 (Boykins #2) gives dt/o H.C. Coates & Lillie McGraw. 

Henry C. & Lillie D. Coates appear in the 1900 & 1910 Census, m. c1889. 
   (Staunton Dist., Halifax Co., VA) 

Her parents were buried in a family cemetery, near Nathalie, Halifax Co. 


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