Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Annie M. Branch, 1918 

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ANNIE M. BRANCH GRAY

MRS. GEORGE M. GRAY

   Mrs. Annie M. Gray, beloved wife of Geo. M. Gray of the Franklin community, 
died at her home near here Monday morning at 8 o'clock of complications 
following Spanish influenza.  The deceased was in her forty-fifth year and was 
the daughter of the late Geo. W. Branch of this county.  She was a faithful 
member of the Franklin Baptist Church and lived the life of a quiet, unassuming 
Christian wife and mother, busying herself with the affairs of home life and 
exemplifying in her daily tasks the faithfulness so beautifully attributed to 
the mother of Lemuel in the Proverbs of Holy Writ. 

   The deceased is survived by her husband and three chldren, Ezra F. Gray and 
Miss Laura Gray of Franklin and Wesley Gray, now in the United States Navy; by 
her aged mother, Mrs. Sue S. Branch; three brothers, W.M., G.W. and R.C. Branch 
of Franklin and four sisters,, Mrs. Mattie Screws, Mrs. Bernice Edwards, Mrs. 
L.B. Edwards and Mrs. F.L. Whitley. 

   The funeral services were conducted at the grave in Poplar Spring cemetery 
Tuesday afternooon at 4:30 o'clock by her pastor, Rev. J.L. McCutcheon, the 
pall-bearers being N.L. Carr, J.A. Johnson, J.J. Bristow, Geo. H. Beale, J.R. 
McLane and Willie Rawls. 
 

[Annie M. (Branch; Mrs. George M.) Gray, d. Oct 1918, age 45, obituary, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 11 Oct 1918, p. 8] 

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