Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Williams, Janie E. Yates, 1920 

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JANIE ELIZA YATES WILLIAMS

   After a lingering illness of many months Mrs. Cooper C. Williams of 
Courtland departed this life at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. John H. 
Kitchen, on the evening of January 1, in the 73rd year of her life.

   The deceased was a native of Southampton, having been born in Courtland in 
1846.  She was the daughter of the late John and Ann Radcliffe Yates, and came 
from fine old English stock.  Her parents were born under the British flag, 
one came from Liverpool and the other form the Isle of Man, and they settled 
in Suffolk after coming to the States.

   The years of Mrs. Williams early girlhood were spent under the shadow of 
the Civil War.  During the conflict and throughout the political and social 
reconstruction which followed the surrender of Lee, she played her part in the 
rebuilding of the new South, forming a strong and earnest character.  At the 
age of 13 she united with the church of her fathers and gave herself to 
Christ, her Master.  In the keeping of her sacred vows and in her saintliness 
she has left a fine example of her friends, her children and grandchildren.

   In 1872 she married the late Cooper C. Williams.  This union was blessed 
with the following children: Mrs. John H. Kitchen, Mrs. J.E. Whitfield, Mrs. 
W.N. Thornton, all of Courtland; Mrs. W.F. Hunter of Enfield, N.C., Mrs. W.J. 
Briggs of Smithfield, the late Mrs. Annie Howell and Charles and Clarence 
Williams.

   About a year ago she met with an accident, and during her late months she 
was so weak that she could not leave her room, yet her spirit never lost its 
courage and its light.  She kept her vivid interest in her friends and in all 
good things; and to come for a while into her presence was to dwell in an 
atmosphere made sweet with the clear consciousness of God.

   In the death of Mrs. Williams Southampton has lost a gentle, high-minded 
and unassuming woman.  Her fidelity to her own family has borne fruit in the 
splendid lives of those she reared.  Her fidelity to her church and to her 
community speaks in the lives of those whom she taught and who came under her 
influence.

   The funeral services were conducted in the Courtland cemetery by her 
rector, Rev. Francis R. Lee, on the morning of January 3.  The active 
pallbearers were W.F. Hunter, J.H. Kitchen, W.N. Thornton, J.E. Whitfield, 
W.J. Briggs and A.E. Briggs; honorary, A.A. Williams, A.F Briggs, Dr. W.T. 
McLemore, E. Whitfield, R.G. Edwards, C.W. Richardson, Hon. W. J. Story, L.L. 
Manry, R.A. Wynns, P.B. Davis, W.J. Sebrell, J.W. Ridley, J.H. Yates, Jno. N. 
Sebrell, Sr., B.A. Williams and E.P. Westbrook.  A great number of sorrowing 
friends gathered around the grave to pay loving tribute to her memory.

"Safely, Safely entered in/ 
 Free from Sorrow, free from sin."


Janie Eliza (YATES; Mrs. C. Cooper) WILLIAMS, 
b. 1846, Courtland, d. 1 Jan 1920, Courtland, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 17*), Courtland, 
   3 Jan 1920, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 23, 1920 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

Her father is marked on the same monument, but he is buried in the 
   DEVANY/YATES family cemetery, near Courtland. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (VIII-61): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 


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