Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Porter, Frances A. Edwards, 1919 

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MRS. FRANCES A. PORTER

  Died in Norfolk Sunday, January 26th, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Roscoe 
H. Stephenson, Mrs. Frances A. Porter, widow of the late Robert A. Porter, in 
her twenty-third year. While the deceased had been in ill health for several 
months, her death was due to pneumonia following infulenza, the scourage 
snatching her from her loved ones even before their minds had been prepared for 
her going. There is something about the suddenness of such deaths that seems to 
prevent one from grasping the full meaning of its inexorableness, and one 
wonders why the winter of death would so often come to darken and chill the 
springrime of Life. Especially is this true when the one who is taken is of 
such an amiable disposition and of such a lovely Chrisitian character as was 
Mrs. Porter. 

  The deceased was the daughter of the late Newitt Edwards and of Mrs. Tilitha 
F. Edwards. Her husband preceded her to the grave four years ago, since which 
time she has made her home with her parents and recenntly with her sister in 
Norfolk. She is survived by her mother, by three brothers, S.R. and Emmett L. 
Edwards of Norfolk, and Calvin Edwards of Franklin; by four sisters, Mrs. C.C. 
Bythe, and Mrs. J.V. Milteer of Franklin, Mrs. Roscoe H. Stephenson of Norfolk, 
and Miss Virgie E. Edwards of Newport News.  A host of friends and 
acquaintances grieve with the family in their loss. 

   Funeral services were conducted at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery by 
Rev. J.A. Chapman, pastor of High Street Methodist Church, of which the 
deceased had been a life long member.  The pall-bearers were Fletcher Porter of 
Newsoms, Roscoe H. Stephenson, S.R. and Emmett L. Edwards of Norfolk and Lloyd 
and Fletcher Whitley of Franklin. 


[Frances A. (Edwards; Mrs. Robert A.) Porter, d. 26 Jan 1919, age 23, obituary, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 31 Jan 1919, p. 1] 

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