Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitfield, Anna J. Davis, 1967 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ ANNA JULIA DAVIS WHITFIELD COURTLAND - A funeral service for Mrs. Annie Davis Whitfield was conducted Friday at 11 a.m. in Courtland Methodist Church. Burial was in Riverside cemetery with W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home in charge. Pallbearers were B.A. Williams Jr., Leroy Magette, Robert Magette, John Rollison Jr., James D. Woodard and Beamon Davis. Mrs. Whitfield died Wednesday afternoon in a Virginia Beach nursing home. A native of Courtland, she was the widow of Elpener Whitfield and a daughter of Leonidas W. and Mrs. Josephine N. Davis. She was a member of Courtland Methodist Church. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. John O. Riddick of Courtland; a son, E. Newton Whitfield of Norfolk; a sister, Mrs. Ida D. Williams of Courtland; a brother, Frank L. Davis of Courtland; three grandchildren; and two great grandchildren. "Annie" Anna Julia (DAVIS; Mrs. Elpener) WHITFIELD, Courtland native, d. 21 Jun 1967, Virginia Beach, age 92, interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 7*), Courtland, 23 Jun 1967, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 26, 1967, p. 6 *Her parents are buried in Episcopal Section, Plot 26. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Riverside list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," June 25, 1937, p. 1) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w314e3ob.txt Their marriage record: Elpener Whitfield, 27, s, So.Co., So.Co., s/o John William and Louisa Anges Joyner Whitfield, Merchant m. 11-20-1895 Leonidas W. Davis’ residence by Rev. C.C. Wertenbaker Annie Julia Davis, 19, s, So.Co., So.Co., d/o Leonidas W. and Josephine Augusta Newton Davis (Southampton Co. MB8:446; transcribed by Bruce Saunders: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/mb08pt.txt) Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w314a2ob.txt