Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Leigh, Manie Caroline, 1900 
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MANIE CAROLINE LEIGH

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   October 3, - Miss Manie Caroline Leigh, the oldest daughter of Mrs. Mary 
Leigh and the late Richard H. Leigh, of Southampton County, departed this life 
on Friday, September 28, 1900, at 5 o'clock p.m., in the eighteenth year of her 
age.  It was only a few months ago that this most amiable young lady was a 
student at the Suffolk College, in the bloom of health, pursuing her studies 
with great success, and looking forward with the brightest anticipations to the 
time of her graduation at the end of the next session. 

   About the first of last May she was taken sick, and returned to the home of 
her aunt, Mrs. M.A. Nicholson, at Assamoosick, Va., in the hope of regaining 
her health.  Here she received the very best attention at the hands of her 
skillful physician, her loving aunt, and other devoted friends, but every 
effort to save her was unavailing and the gentle spirit which had made a home 
full of sunshine and gladdened the hearts of its happy inmates soared aloft to 
mansions of celestial brightness and glory. 

   Her funeral took place last Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the solemn 
services being conducted by Rev. C.H. McGhee.  The following gentlemen acted as 
pallbearers: Active - J.W. Urquhart, Jr., Chas. H. Sebrell, Chas. F. Urquhart, 
Bins Briggs, Vernon Thorpe, John Leigh, Dr. Emmett F. Reese and B.W. Sebrell.  
Honorary - F.G. Barker, E.F. Reese, Dr. J.Emmett Sebrell, R.F. Briggs, W.W. 
White, W.S. Briggs, E. Whitfield, S.V. Camp and J. Ben Davis.  A large 
concourse of sympathizing friends followed the funeral cortege to the family 
cemetery, and as the sun sank below the western horizon its glory was reflected 
on an affluence of flowers, whose beauty and fragrance were typical of the 
young life just ended - doomed, like the flowers, to early decay. 

[Manie Caroline LEIGH, d. 28 Sep 1900, age 18, obituary, 
 "The Suffolk News Herald" (Suffolk, VA), obit dated 2 Oct 1900, p. 2] 

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