Sussex-Powhatan County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Tompkins, Sallie C. Cotten, 1940 

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Mrs. Sallie Corbell Tompkins 

  Mrs. Sallie Corbell Cotten Tompkins, aged 63, died this morning about 9 
o'clock at the home of her brother, D.C. Cotten, in Nansemond county. 

  She is survived by two brothers, W.J. Cotten of Chuckatuck and D.C. Cotten 
of Nansemond county; one sister, Mrs. Willis Woodward of Richmond and several 
nieces and nephews. 

  The body was brought to the R.W. Baker and Company funeral home where it 
will remain until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, at which time the procession 
will leave for Old St. Luke's Episcopal church, where services will be held at 
the graveside at 1 p.m., conducted by the Rev. James Watt.  Burial will be in 
the church cemetery. 


Sallie Corbell (COTTEN; Mrs. Edmund Lee) TOMPKINS, 
b. 5 Mar 1878, Waverly, Sussex Co., 
d. 18 Nov 1940, at brother's home, Nansemond Co., 
interred in St. Luke's Cemetery*, Subletts, Powhatan Co., 19 Nov 1940, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 18, No. 205, Mon., Nov. 18, 1940, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

A photo of her gravestone - added by John Shuck - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #20645394. 

D.Cert. 26178 (Chuckatuck #20) 

Sallie & Dr. TOMPKINS (1862 - 1922) m. 16 Oct 1895 in Suffolk. 
   (Nansemond Co. #145) 

Her parents, William Fred. & Va. Alice (CORBELL) COTTEN, are buried in 
   St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery, near Chuckatuck. 
   St. John list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/stjohn.txt 

Her father's obit ("Smithfield Times," Apr. 25, 1929, p. 6) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/c350w3ob.txt 

Her maternal aunt LaSalle "Sallie" CORBELL (1843 - 1931) m. Confederate Gen. 
   George Edward PICKETT; they are buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond. 


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