Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Manetta F. Gardner, 1922 

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MANETTA F. GARDNER EDWARDS

   Mrs. Manetta Gardner Edwards, wife of W.W. Edwards of this town, died at her 
home in First avenue Friday, January 13, after a long illness which she had 
borne with patience and unmurmuring resignation. The deceased was in her 
fiftieth year and was the daughter of the late Ezra J. and Elvira Anne Gardner 
of Courtland. On November 11, 1896 she was united in marriage with W.W. Edwards 
and for seven years thereafter they made their home in the Berlin community. 
Eighteen years ago the family moved to Franklin where they have lived and been 
useful and favorably known citizen of our town. Besides her bereaved husband, 
Mrs. Edwards is survived by  three sons, Gardner T., Roy and Herbert Edwards, 
all of this place, and two sister, Miss Margaret O. Gardner of Franklin and 
Mrs. W.H. Spear of Kinston, N.C.

   She was a faithful and consistent member of the Franklin Baptist Church 
Saturday afternoon, January 14, at 2 o'clock by her Pastor, Rev. M.A. Maclean, 
assisted by Rev. C.W. Scarborough, interment following in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery. The pallbearers were; active, R.E.L. Watkins, W.H. Lankford, E. Frank 
Story, C.F. Whitfield, R.C. Campbell, S.R. Nicholson, J.F. Bryant, Jr., J.A. 
Johnson; honorary, C.E. Pond, G.T. Caroon, G.H. Beale, M.E. Lawrence, P.D. 
Camp, A.W. Hayes, F.E. Howell, W.E. Smith, J.E. Edwards, Tyler Edwards, L.M. 
Edwards, J. Riddick Edwards, J.B. Vaughan, Henry Gardiner.


[Manetta F. (GARDNER; Mrs. W.W.) EDWARDS, d. 13 Jan 1922, age 50, 
 interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, 14 Jan 1922, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 20 Jan 1922, p. 1] 

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