Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Womble, Elizabeth Bradshaw, 1947 

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MRS. BETTIE WOMBLE, 98, DIES NEAR SEDLEY 

  Mrs. Bettie Womble, 98, oldest resident of the Sedley community, died April 
28 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.M. Johnson, near Sedley. 

  She was the daughter of the late M.C. and Patient Bradshaw*, of Southampton 
County.  She was a member of Black Creek Baptist Church. 

  She is survived by three sons, J.T. and C.H. Womble, of Ivor, and Sonny 
Womble, of Raleigh, N.C.; a daughter, Mrs. W.M. Johnson, of Sedley; 15 grand 
and 23 great grandchildren. 

  Funeral services were held Tuesday at Black Creek Church at 2:30 P.M. 
Burial was in the church cemetery. 

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ELIZABETH "BETTIE" BRADSHAW WOMBLE 

   Mrs. Bettie Womble, 98, oldest resident of the Sedley community, died 
Monday morning, April 28, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.M. Johnson, 
near Sedley, after an illness of several months.

   She was the daughter of the late M.C. and Patient Bradshaw* of Southampton 
County, and was an active member of the Black Creek Baptist Church for many 
years.

   Mrs. Womble is survived by three sons, J.T. Bradshaw and C.H. Bradshaw* of 
Ivor and Sonny Womble of Raleigh, N.C.; a daughter, Mrs. W.M. Johnson of 
Sedley; fifteen grandchildren and twenty-eight great-grandchildren.

   The body was brought to the Holland Funeral Home in Franklin, where it lay 
in state until Tuesday afternoon.  Funeral services were conducted from the 
Black Creek Church at 2:30 o’clock by the pastor, Rev. W.B. Watson, with 
interment in the church cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Lloyd Johnson, Woodrow Johnson, Raby Vann, F.L. Futrell, 
Robert Bradshaw and T.J. Bradshaw.


Elizabeth "Bettie" (BRADSHAW; Mrs. William Henry) WOMBLE, of Sedley, 
b. 12 May 1849*, Southampton Co., 
d. 28 Apr 1947, at daughter's home, near Sedley, 
interred in Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery*, 29 Apr 1947, 
"Sussex-Surry Dispatch" (Waverly, VA), Vol. 11, No. 16, Thurs., May 1, 1947, 
   p. 1; 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 41, No. 27, Fri., May 2, 1947, p. 15 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Black Creek list (BC-30): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Martha Fontaine Byrum - 
   is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #139118742. 

D.Cert. 9936 (B&I #7) also gives daughter of Matten C. & Patient BRADSHAW; 
   the informant was her daughter. 

She appears in the 1900 Census (Jerusalem, So.Co.) as Bettie WOMBLE, 
   b. Jan 1855 VA, divorced, 4/4 ch surviving. 

She seems to be identical with this bride: 

William H. Womble, 18, b. & res. Southampton Co., [parents not given], Laborer 
Elizabeth Bradshaw, 22, b. & res. Southampton Co., d/o H. & E. Bradshaw 
m.lic. 16 Jan 1878, by clerk L.R. Edwards 
m. 17 Jan 1878, at the Bride's residence, by John T. Kitchen 
(Southampton Co. MB3:256) 

The 1880 Census (Jerusalem, So.Co.) gives Henry WOMBLE, 20, Elizabeth, 25, 
   and son James M., 2; adjacent to sisters Sallie WOMBLE, 50, & 
   Polly WOMBLE, 48. 

Her ex-husband (1861 - 1922) is buried with his second wife in High Hill 
   Cemetery, Aurora, Beaufort Co., NC. 


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