Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Vitals.....Drewry, Mary E. Councill, 1921 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Mary E. (COUNCILL; Mrs. John T.) DREWRY, 1848 - 9 Dec 1921, death certificate abstract ______________________________________________________________________________ Certificate of Death, No. 27999 Commonwealth of Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics {BVS} State Board of Health Form No. 12. Place Of Death: County of Southampton Co. Magisterial District of Jerusalem Registration District No. 873A Registered No. 21 Full Name: Mary T. Drewry [sic] ______________________________________________________________________________ Personal and Statistical Particulars Sex: Female Color or Race: W- Marital Status: Widowed Spouse of: John Tyler Drewry Date of Birth: Dont Know [1848*] Age: 90 years Estimate [73*] Occupation: none Birthplace: Va. Father: -Name: Ben Councill* -Birthplace: Va. Mother: -Maiden Name: Dont Know _* -Birthplace: Va. Informant: Jno.B. Drewry Sr.* Sedley Va. Burial or Removal: Home place*, 12/11, 1921 near Sedley Va. Undertaker: A. Bernie Cobb Courtland Va. Filed: [not dated] Registrar: A.S. Bryant ______________________________________________________________________________ Medical Certificate of Death Date of Death: Dec_9th_ 1921 I Hereby Certify, That I attended deceased on During November I last her alive on Latter part of Nov- and that death occurred, on date stated above, at 8:10 _.M. The Cause of Death was as follows: Hemiphlegia. Paralysis in left side. Duration: 26 ds. Contributory (Secondary): age Where was disease contracted if not at place of death? [check mark] Did an operation precede death? no Was there an autopsy? no What test confirmed diagnosis? none (Signed) R.L. Raiford, M.D. [not dated] Sedley, Va. ______________________________________________________________________________ The Library of Virginia Bureau Of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate 1921-27999 *Additional information: Buried in the DREWRY family cemetery, near Sedley. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 5 (V-35): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol5.txt Col. P.J. Turner's transcript of the 1850 Census gives Mary as age 8. (Nottaway Parish, Southampton Co., VA; p. 325b, ln 30). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/census/1850/pg0325a.txt The cemetery list gives her as b. 1848, which agrees with her marriage record- John T. Drewry, 29, widowed, b. & res. Southampton Co., sn/o Joseph & Sally Drewry, Farmer Mary Councill, 24, single, b. & res. Southampton Co., dt/o Benjamin & Susan Councill m.lic. 5 Feb 1872, by clerk O. White m. 8 Feb 1872, at B. Councils, Southampton Co., by T.W. Joyner (Southampton Co. MB2:4) Her parents - Benjamin Council (Counsell) & Susan Gardner m.bond 20 Apr 1835 sec/wit: Elias Luter; m. 12 May 1835 by Rev. Eld. Daniel Whitley (Southampton Co. M.Reg. 1750-1853, p. 455) Her father seems to have been previously married - Benjamin Council & Fereby Leuter [Phereby Luter] m.bond 12 Feb 1829 sec/wit: Henry Council; James Rochelle reverse: "Executed about the time of the within date. R.I. Daniel." (Southampton Co. M.Reg. 1750-1853, p. 396) Mary's husband's first marriage - John T. Drewry, 29, single, b. & res. Southampton Co., sn/o Joseph & Sally Drewry, Farmer Antoinette (Antoinett/Antionette) Drake, 22, widowed, b. & res. Southampton Co., dt/o Jesse & Peggy Spivey/Spivy m.lic. 13 Aug 1866, by clerk L.R. Edwards m. 15 Aug 1866, Southampton Co., by M.B. Barrett (Southampton Co. MB1A:136, M.Reg. p. 18 #86) Antoinette M. Spivey 1m. 26 Apr 1860 Edwin Drake (Southampton Co. MB1:76, M.Reg. p. 8 #20) Col. P.J. Turner's transcript of the 1850 Census gives John as age 10. (Nottaway Parish, Southampton Co., VA; p. 297b, ln 10). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/census/1850/pg0294b.txt John Tyler DREWRY (b. 1842) was a veteran of the Southampton Lee Artillery (A/18th Va Hvy Arty, CSA), but neither he nor Mary are on the Confederate pension roles. Pensioner Mary C. DREWRY was from Franklin Co. The informant was their son John Benjamin DREWRY, buried in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley. SCHS Cemetery Project, Rosemont list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Matt Harris, zoobug64@aol.com (Nov 2013) [brackets mine] file size: 5 Kb file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/deaths/d660m1dc.txt