Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gilliam, Antionette Harris, 1956 

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ANTIONETTE HARRIS GILLIAM

MRS. ANTIONETTE H. GILLIAM

   Mrs. Antionette Harris Gilliam, 89 (known to her close friends as "Miss 
Nettie"), widow of John Everett Gilliam, died Sunday night at 9:40 in a 
Richmond hospital after a short illness. 

   She was a native of Southampton County, the daughter of Fabian Lewis and 
Mrs. Ann H. Harris, and came to make her home with her aunt, Mrs. Henry Rawls, 
at nearby Franklin at an early age. She attended Finney College in Suffolk. 
Except for a period between 1893 and 1907 when the family lived in Newport News 
and Norfolk, she had made her home in Franklin, where she was one of the oldest 
members of High Street Methodist Church. 

   Mrs. Gilliam is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Claire Gilliam Simpson, and a 
son, Edward Franklin Gilliam, both of Franklin; a granddaughter, Mrs. June Fox 
Schiro of Cincinnati, Ohio; a great-grandson, Jack Schiro,of Cincinnati, and 
two great-granddaughters, Caron Schiro of Cincinnati, and Mrs. John H. Lane of 
Durham, N.C. 

   Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the graveside in Poplar 
Spring Cemetery by Rev. James W. Turner and Rev. J.S. Maxey. The pallbearers 
were G. Carl Steinhardt, W.T. Pace, Jr., R.A. Pretlow, Jr., Samuel Bradshaw, 
W.M. Weede, J.Linwood Edwards, R. Ellsworth Jones, and C.C. Vaughan, III. 


[Antionette (HARRIS; Mrs. John E.) GILLIAM, d. 15 Jul 1956, Richmond, age 89, 
 bd. Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, 17 Jul 1956, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 19 Jul 1956] 

[file transcribed by Carol Stevens, 
 and re-formatted by File Manager.]