Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Barham, Virginia Burgess, 1957 

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VIRGINIA BURGESS BARHAM

MRS. VIRGINIA BARHAM

   Mrs. Virginia Burgess Barham, 51, wife of Percy D. Barham of Portsmouth died 
in a Portsmouth hospital early Saturday morning July 13, after an illness of 
three weeks. 

   A native of Southampton County, she was the duaghter of the late George 
Washington Burgess and Mrs. Virginia Cox Burgess of Capron.  For the past 12 
years she had resided in Portsmouth. She was a teacher in the Highland-Biltmore 
school in Norfolk County. 

   Mrs. Barham was a member of the Capron Methodist Church. 

   Besides her husband she is survived by a daughter, Julia Ann Barham of 
Portsmouth; six sisters, Mrs. M.A. Pierce, Mrs. D.P. Little and Miss Bessie 
Burgess of Capron, Mrs. H.P. Marks of Suffolk, Mrs. Jane R. Edwards of Joyner, 
and Mrs. Hope B. Smith of Norfolk; a brother, R.L. Burgess of Capron; and 
several nieces and nephews. 

   Services for Mrs. Barham were conducted at the Snelling Funeral Home in 
Portsmouth on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. E.N. Calvert, pastor of the 
Park View Methodist Church. Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin. 

   Pallbearers were Curtis Brooks, Jr., Joe Burgess, R.J. Dunn,Jr., George B. 
Edwards, R..G. Edwards and Frank Scott. 


[Virginia (BURGESS; Mrs. Percy D.) BARHAM, d. 13 Jul 1957, Portsmouth, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 18 Jul 1957] 

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