Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wills, Margaret L. Cobb, 1929 

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Death Claims Oldest Citizen of Franklin 

  FRANKLIN, Va., Nov. 22. - Mrs. Margaret Wills, aged 68, wife of the late 
Capt. I.C. Wills, of Southampton County, and the oldest resident of Franklin, 
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.C. Council, on Clay street, yesterday 
afternoon at two thirty o’clock. 

  She is survived by four daughters and two sons, Mrs. Lucy Robertson, of 
Virginian Beach; Mrs. J.C. Council, Mrs. J.R. Knight, and Mrs. Sallie Wills 
Cobb, of Franklin, Dr. I.H. Wills, of Norfolk, and James W. Wills, of 
Baltimore. 

  Funeral services will be conducted from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. 
J.C. Councill, on Clay street, Saturday morning at 11 o’clock, by her pastor, 
the Rev. K.E. Burke, of Sycamore Baptist Church.  Interment will be made in 
Poplar Spring cemetery.

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Mrs. Wills Dies In Franklin Yesterday 

  A message was received in Suffolk yesterday telling of the death of Mrs. 
Margaret Wills, widow of Captain I.C. Wills, of Franklin, which occurred at 
home in Franklin yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.  Mrs. Wills was 
grandmother of Mrs. Walter F. Story, of this city.  The funeral services will 
be held tomorrow in Franklin. 


Margaret Louise (COBB; Mrs. Irvin C.) WILLS, 
b. 22 Jan 1842, Nansemond Co., d. 21 Nov 1929, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Sect. 1, Plot 3*), Franklin, 23 Nov 1929, 
"Suffolk News-Herald," Vol. 7, No. 225, Nov. 22, 1929, pp. 1 & 8 

An obit also appeared in the "Richmond Times-Dispatch," Nov. 23, 1929. 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list:
   http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

She applied for a Confederate widow's pension 3 Apr 1926. 


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