Surry-Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Knight, Wortley E. Worrell, 1971 

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WORTLEY ELLEN WORRELL KNIGHT 

MRS. WORTLEY E. KNIGHT 

  Mrs. Wortley Ellen Knight, 98, one of Wakefield's oldest residents, died 
Tuesday, March 30, at Louise Obici Hospital in Suffolk. 

  She was a native of Southampton County and the widow of Benjamin Franklin 
Knight.  She was the oldest member of the Rocky Hock United Methodist Church. 

  Survivors include; a son Ben. E. Knight; a daughter, Mrs. Rossie E. Andrews, 
both of Wakefield; three granddaughters, and three great-granddaughters. 

  Graveside services will be conducted Thursday, April 1, at 2:30 p.m. in the 
Rocky Hock Church Cemetery by the Rev. R.L. Consolvo. 

  Active pallbearers will be R.M. Pond, W.C. Sealey Jr., J. Richard Andrews, 
Allen Ray Worrell, Harvey W. Stephenson, Ralph E. Sealey, S. Aubrey Whitmore, 
and Charlie W. Drewry. 

  Purviance Funeral Home of Wakefield is in charge of the arrangements. 


Wortley Ellen (WORRELL; B.F. "Frank" Jr.) KNIGHT, 
b. 6 Dec 1872, Southampton Co., d. 30 Mar 1971, Suffolk, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 59*), Surry Co., 
   1 Apr 1971, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*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 #137009963. 

Her husband's obits ("Tidewater News," July 31, 1958, II-4, & donated) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/k523f1ob.txt 

Her father, William Emmett WORRELL, is buried in a WORRELL family cemetery, 
   Old Place Rd. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 6 (MV-VI-34): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol6.txt 

Her father was a Confederate veteran, having served in Co. B, 9th VA Infantry. 
   A synopsis of his service record is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/military/civilwar/cwvets_so.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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