Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Williams, Amy, 1980 

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AMY WILLIAMS

   Courtland - Funeral services for Mrs. Amy Williams were held Saturday at 4:30 
p.m. in St. Luke’s United Church of Christ, Sedley, by the Rev. J.J. Ferguson. 
Burial was in the Ricks Family Cemetery, Sedley.

   She died Tuesday in Southampton Memorial Hospital, Franklin.

   She was a native of Courtland and the widow of James L. Williams.  She was 
member of St. Luke’s United Church of Christ and Riverview Senior Citizens Club.

   Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Mary M. Ford of Brooklyn; a son, James L. 
Williams Jr. of Sedley; a sister, Mrs. Eugenia Best of Franklin; 11 
grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.


Amy "Ammie" (TURNER; Mrs. James L. {Sr.}) WILLIAMS, 
b. 19 Apr 1905, Courtland native, d. 8 Jul 1980, Franklin, 
interred in RICKS family cemetery*, near Sedley, 12 Jul 1980, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 14, 1980, p. 7 

*Possibly identical with the RICKS family cemetery on Indian Branch Ln. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous African-American Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (AA-80): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/afr_am.txt 

Additional information gleaned from her Death Certificate (#80-021217), which 
   gives her parents as Ruben & Florence Turner. 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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