Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Martha Whitehead, 1916 

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MARTHA WHITEHEAD GRAY

MRS. JOSEPH H. GRAY

   Mrs. Martha Gray, the beloved wife of Jos. H. Gray, an honored resident of 
this community, died at her Thursday, June 29, in her sixty-seventy year.  The 
last five years of her life she had been in ill-health, and while her death was 
not unexpected, the departure of this good woman into the life Beyond 
nevertheless came as a great shock to her bereaved husband, children, relatives 
and friends.  Mrs. Gray was Miss Martha Whitehead of this county, and she and 
her husband had nearly completed half a century of wedded life.  Loyal to her 
husband, faithful and self-sacrificing to her children, generous among her 
neighbors, she will be greatly missed from the circle in which she lived.  She 
was a faithful and consistent member of the Franklin M.E. church. 

   She is survived by her husband; by five children, Mrs. W.W. Vaughan of 
Prescott, Arizona; J.T. Gray of Franklin, Mrs. R.H. Raiford of Norfolk, J.L. 
Gray and Mrs. L.M. Edwards of Franklin; two brothers W.T. and R.E. Whitehead of 
Courtland and one sister, Mrs. Jas. Screws, living near here. 

   The funeral services will be held from the Franklin M.E. church this 
(Friday) afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, conducted by the pastor Rev. R.M. Chandler, 
the interment following in the family plot in Poplar Spring cemetery. 

   The active pallbearers are S.R. Nicholson, Geo. H. Parker, D.H. Eley, J.B. 
Gay, R.E.L. Watkins, Dr. E.A. deBordenave, harry Steinhardt, Dr. W.E. Snipes: 
Honorary, C.C. Vaughan, W.T. Pace, Jno. C. Parker, R. Henry Cobb, J.P. Gay, 
P.D. Camp, L.R. Edwards, J.B. Vaughan. 


[Martha (Whitehead; Mrs. Joseph H.) Gray, d. 29 Jun 1916, age 67, obituary, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 30 Jun 1916] 

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