Surry-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Bessie R. Atkinson, 1959 

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BESSIE ATKINSON BROWN 

   WAKEFIELD - Mrs. Bessie Atkinson Brown, 62, widow of William Henry Brown, 
Sr., died Sunday, April 19, at a Suffolk hospital after a long illness. 

   She was the daughter of the late John H. and Nellie Grant Atkinson and was 
a native of Surry County.  She had resided in Wakefield nearly all her life. 

   She was a member of the Rocky Hock Methodist Church. 

   Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. J.A. Skinner and Mrs. Walter R. 
Layne, both of Wakefield, and Mrs. Nellie B. Worley of Petersburg; two sons, 
William H. Brown of Wakefield and Elton W. Brown of Toano; nine grandchildren; 
one sister, Mrs. J.A. Fore of Petersburg, and several nieces and nephews. 

   Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the 
Purviance Funeral Chapel by the Rev. L.P. Bland, the Rev. J.L. Blankenship, 
the Rev. D.M. Cotter and Dr. J.E. White. 

   Burial was in the Rocky Hock Church cemetery. 

   Active pallbearers were F.E. Branch, C.C. Murphy, J.N. Barker, R.M. Pond, 
Thornton Spivey, Dr. Kasper Kaufman, Samuel Brittle and Marsden Pulley. 


Bessie Ruth (ATKINSON; Mrs. William Henry Sr.) BROWN, of near Wakefield, 
b. 23 Oct 1896, Surry Co., d. 19 Apr 1959, Suffolk, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 57A*), Surry Co., 
   21 Apr 1959, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 19, 1959, Sect. II, p. 4 

*Rocky Hock list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/cemeteries/rockyhk.txt 

A photo of her gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137183987. 

Her father & step-mother are buried in Blandford Cemetery, Peterburg. 

Her mother d. 9 Mar 1916 at home, Peterburg, and was buried the next day in 
   Wakefield.  Apparently unmarked, she has been added both to Rocky Hock 
   Church Cemetery & Wakefield Cemetery, though she could be elsewhere. 
   Wakefield list, another extension of the SCHS}Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

Her maternal grandfather, Eronimus M. GRANT, was a Confederate veteran, 
   having served as a private in Battery B, 12th VA Light Artillery, CSA. 
   He was captured after the fall of Petersburg, and was a POW at Hart's 
   Island, NY harbor, until taking the Oath of Allegiance 20 Jun 1865. 
   He m. "Lou" Louisa A. SLADE 9 Feb 1871. (Surry Co. #44) 

Her husband's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Jan. 26, 1950, p. 20) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/b650w5ob.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

file at: 
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