TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - OBITUARIES - Matilda Earls Graham, 19 Nov 1940 ----¤¤¤---- "Clinch Valley News" Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA Friday, November 22, 1940 MRS. JOHN GRAHAM Mrs. Matilda Earls Graham, age 57, died at her home in North Tazewell Tuesday morning after more than a years illness. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 from the Christian church, with the Rev. Curtis Jones officiating. Burial was in the new cemetery. She is survived by her husband, John Graham, several sisters and brothers, and the following children: Mrs. George Peery, Yukon. W.Va.,; Frank Graham, Caretta, W. Va.; Mrs. Aubrey Edmonds, Bill Graham, George Graham, Bun (sic) Graham and Shields Graham, all of North Tazewell. [I do not know the parents of Matilda Earls. John Graham was the son of William F. Graham & Lavelette E. Moore who was a d/o John S. Moore & Emily Shannon]. 1880 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS # 211 88th Dist, H. M. Smythe, enumerator WILLIAM GRAHAM, 22, Farmer, all in home b. VA .....Luralette (sic), 22, wife, k-house .....John, 2, son .....Ausin,(sic), 1 .....Charles, 5/ 12 1900 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS # 178, Jeffersonville Dist., Jas. P. Whitman, enumerator WILLIAM F. GRAHAM, 43, b. Aug 1856 in VA All in home b.,VA., Farmer, married for 23 years .....Lavelet (sic), 40, b. May 1860 (sic) *, wife, had had 5 children with 4 alive in 1900 .....John W., 22, b. June 1877, not yet married a year, farm labor .....Matilda, 17, b. Jan 1883, Daughter .in-law of head of household, no children .....Charles J., 20, b. Jan 1880, farm labor .....Robert L., 16, b. Mch 1884, farm labor * Lavelette Moore was listed as 3 years of age in 1860. Karen EAGLE Moman arizonaeagle@qwest.net August 31, 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Karen EAGLE Moman arizonaegle@qwest.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------------