TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - OBITUARIES - Mary Marie McDowell, 2 Jan 1943
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"Clinch Valley News"
Tazewell, Tazewell Co VA
Friday, January 8, 1943

MRS. MCDOWELL
(Communicated)

Mary Marie McDowell died at her home at Tip Top, Va., Saturday night,
Dec.__?__ (no day year given). *  She had been a native of Wrights
Valley the whole of her seventy-six years. At the age of nineteen she
married Charles William McDowell, and they became the parents of seven
children, five of whom preceded her in death. Her husband died in 1924.

She leaves to mourn her loss two daughters. Miss Trula McDowell and Mrs.
R. B. Compton, both of Tip Top; two grandchildren, Bane Compton, of
Bluefield, W. Va., and Mrs. S. E. Mitchum of Tip Top; five great
grandchildren and one brother, Huston Moore, of Bailey.

Mrs. McDowell had been an invalid for several months before her death,
and though the death angel seems cruel to us he must have been an Angel
of mercy to one who had suffered so long and patiently.

God bless her grassy grave
A voice from it is heard,
"I'm not dead, I'm only out for the evening
And I'll return on that morning
Of all mornings, to claim each of my own."

THANK YOU, followed:

We wish to extend our heart felt thanks to our neighbors and felt (sic)
thanks for their many acts of kindness during the illness and death of
our invalid mother and grandmother. Especially do we thank Mr. Greever
and rev. Mr. Humble, the Sunday School and the men who labored the
grave.
-Mrs. R. B. Compton, Miss Trula McDowell, Bane Compton, Mrs. S. E.
Mitchum.

[Mary Marie (Moore) McDowell, d/o Samuel Lycurgess More & Martha M.
Shannon who was a d/o William H. Shannon who died before the 1850
Tazewell Co., VA Census was read & Caroline E. McGranahan. Mrs. Russell
Bascom Compton was Lelia Mc Dowell. Bane Compton was the s/o R. B. &
Lelia Compton. Do not confuse this Bane Compton with Henry BANE Compton
who was the s/o Ballard Preston Compton & Delilah Harless. I do not know
the identity of Mrs. S. E. Mitchum

* The last Saturday, in December 1942, was the 26th. However, I do not
know if that was the date oh death.

ADDED DATA:
1880 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS
# 226, Clear Fork Township, Samuel H. Laird, enumerator
SAMUEL MOORE, 45, farmer, all in home b. VA
.....Martha M., 38, wife, k-house
.....Susan R. (sic) , 18, dau, d. Dec 1881
.....Houstin L. (sic), 15, son
.....MARY M., 13, dau
.....Ferdinand D., 11, son
.....Robert B., 9, son, d. Oct 1881
.....James W., 8, son
.....Charles F. ,6, son
....Jennie, 3, dau
.....John W., 1, son
CAROLINE E. HARVEY (sic) , 72, MOTHER-IN LAW [Caroline E. (McGranahan)
Shannon remarried after her first husband, William H. Shannon, died
before 1850, Caroline then married  John Harry, age  62 , a widow from
Rockingham Co VA, John Harry & Caroline married on 23 Jan. 1855.
Caroline E. (McGranahan) (Shannon) Harry died 11 Dec. 1883 at Wright's
Valley, Tazewell, Co., VA., d/o James &  Nancy McGranahan].

Karen EAGLE Moman
September 13, 2002


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