Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Williams, Mattie Rebecca Beale, 1918 

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MATTIE REBECCA BEALE WILLIAMS

MRS. HENRY A. WILLIAMS

   Mrs. Henry A. Williams of Norfolk died at Sarah Leigh Hospital in that 
city, May 3, 1918, in her fifty-second year. 

   The deceased was a native of this county, but had made Norfolk her home 
for about fifteen years.  She was the daughter of the late William Beale and 
numbered a wide circle of friends in this section. She was a good neighbor, 
a faithful wife and a kind and loving mother. 

   She is survived by her husband; one son, H.A. Williams, Jr.; two daughters, 
Misses Rebecca and Leta Williams of Norfolk; two brothers, W.L. Beale of 
Handson and J.W. Beale of Franklin, one sister, Mrs. Jas.I. Beale of Franklin. 

   The funeral services were conducted from the home of her sister, Mrs. Jas. 
I. Beale, in South High Street by Dr. C.H. Rowland, Pastor fo the Franklin 
Christian Church, assisted by Rev. J.L. McCutcheon of the Baptist Church, 
Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock with interment in Poplar Spring Cemetery. 

   The pallbearers were: active, L.R. Jones, J.B. Gay, W.T. Pace, J.R. Knight, 
D.A. Holland, J.H. Norfleet, Dr. R.H. Cobb, E.L. Beale; honorary, J.R. Howell, 
J.P. Gay, A.L. Gardner, R.A. Pretlow, Gen. C.C. Vaughan, M.H. Moore, J.L. 
Camp, W.H. Stroud, Franklin; T.J. Rowe, R.E. Prince, Norfolk. 


Mattie Rebecca (BEALE; Mrs. Henry A. Sr.) WILLIAMS, of Norfolk, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 3 May 1918, Norfolk, age 52, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 42*), Franklin, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 10, 1918, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Additional information: 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," July 2, 1948, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w452h4ob.txt 

Their marriage record - 

Henry A. Williams, 22, single, b. & res. Southampton Co., 
   sn/o Jno. & Eliza Williams, Merchant 
Mattie R. Beale, 20, single, b. & res. Southampton Co., 
   dt/o Wm. & R.J. Beale 
m.lic. 19 Nov 1888, by clerk B.F. McLemore 
m. 22 Nov 1888, at the Residence of Bride's Father, So.ampton Co., 
   by R.A. Ricks [date mis-copied to cert. "22 Mch"] 
(Southampton Co. MB6:382) 


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