Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Witmer, Maude C. Davis, 1948 

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MAUDE CONSTANT DAVIS WITMER

   Mrs. Maude Constant Davis Witmer, aged 55 years*, wife of David E. Witmer 
and daughter of the late Samuel W. and Mrs. Martha Caroline Williams Davis, 
died at noon on Tuesday, December 14, at the residence, 626 W. Princess Anne 
Road, Norfolk.

   Mrs. Witmer was a native of Southampton County, and had made her home in 
Norfolk for the past twenty years.

   Besides her husband, she is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Jesse F. 
McClenny of Franklin and Mrs. W.P. Johnson and Miss Gypsy Davis of Ivor; a 
niece, Miss Anne McClenny of Fredericksburg; and two nephews, Davis McClenny 
of Indianapolis, Ind., and Watkins Johnson of Ivor.

   Funeral services for Mrs. Witmer were conducted at two o’clock, Thursday 
afternoon, from the home of her sister, Mrs. Jesse F. McClenny, by Rev. R.D. 
Stephenson of Cradock.

   Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the active pallbearers being Hunter 
Darden, Vernard Cotton, J. Richard Lawrence, Walter Beale, Emmett Davis of 
Sedley, J.T. Vaughan, Floyd T. Joyner of Ivor, and Mr. McKetha of Norfolk.

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Mrs. Maude Witmer 
Buried Thursday 
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  Funeral services for Mrs. Maude Constant Davis Witmer, 55*, who died Tuesday 
at her home in Norfolk, were held Thursday ot 2:30 P. M. at the home of her 
sister, Mrs. Jesse McClenny, with the Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Cradock 
officiating.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery. 

  Mrs. Witmer was a native of Southampton County but had made her home in 
Norfolk for 20 years.  She was the daughter of the late Samuel W. and Mrs. 
Martha Caroline Williams Davis.  She is survived by her husband David E. 
Witmer; three sisters, Mrs. McClenny; and Mrs. W.P. Johnson of Ivor; a niece, 
Miss Anne McClenny of Indianapolis and a nephew, Watkins Johnson of Ivor. 


Maude Constant (DAVIS; Mrs. David E.) WITMER, formerly of Henderson, NC, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 14 Dec 1948, at home, Norfolk, age 56*, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 93A*), Franklin, 
   16 Dec 1948, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 17, 1948, p. 20; 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 22, No. 20, Dec. 22, 1948, p. 1, col 2 

*Cemetery list gives b. 5 Jun 1892, so d. age 56. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 12, 1920, p. 9) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d120s1ob.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 21, 1930) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d120m3ob.txt 


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