MELISSA (SAVAGE) PARSONS BAKER WILKINS
Funeral services for Mrs. Melissa Wilkins, 67, widow of the late Levi James Wilkins, will be held at her Brown Street home at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
She was a daughter of the late W. Byard and Mary E. Purnell Savage and was also predeceased by her first husband Benjamin F. Parsons and her second husband Charles Baker.
She is survived by six children, Mrs. Emma (Parsons) Hayman, William E. Parsons, B. Frank Parsons, N. Welton Parsons, and Miss Mamie Baker, all of Salisbury; and Mrs. Anna (Parsons) Magonigal, Delair, N.J.; two stepchildren, Virgil Wilkins and Mrs. Isaac (Wilkins) Hearn, both of Salisbury; two brothers, W. Raymond Savage, Newport News, Va. and Charles Savage, Pittsville; fifteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
The Rev. A. W. Goodhand will officiate. Interment will be in Parsons Cemetery.
Source Salisbury Times Aug 30, 1937
Of note: Her marker is incorrect - her death certificate has her death as 1937 not 1936.
Funeral services for Mrs. Melissa Wilkins, 67, widow of the late Levi James Wilkins, will be held at her Brown Street home at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
She was a daughter of the late W. Byard and Mary E. Purnell Savage and was also predeceased by her first husband Benjamin F. Parsons and her second husband Charles Baker.
She is survived by six children, Mrs. Emma (Parsons) Hayman, William E. Parsons, B. Frank Parsons, N. Welton Parsons, and Miss Mamie Baker, all of Salisbury; and Mrs. Anna (Parsons) Magonigal, Delair, N.J.; two stepchildren, Virgil Wilkins and Mrs. Isaac (Wilkins) Hearn, both of Salisbury; two brothers, W. Raymond Savage, Newport News, Va. and Charles Savage, Pittsville; fifteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
The Rev. A. W. Goodhand will officiate. Interment will be in Parsons Cemetery.
Source Salisbury Times Aug 30, 1937
Of note: Her marker is incorrect - her death certificate has her death as 1937 not 1936.
MELISSA (SAVAGE) PARSONS BAKER WILKINS
Funeral services for Mrs. Melissa Wilkins, 67, widow of the late Levi James Wilkins, will be held at her Brown Street home at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
She was a daughter of the late W. Byard and Mary E. Purnell Savage and was also predeceased by her first husband Benjamin F. Parsons and her second husband Charles Baker.
She is survived by six children, Mrs. Emma (Parsons) Hayman, William E. Parsons, B. Frank Parsons, N. Welton Parsons, and Miss Mamie Baker, all of Salisbury; and Mrs. Anna (Parsons) Magonigal, Delair, N.J.; two stepchildren, Virgil Wilkins and Mrs. Isaac (Wilkins) Hearn, both of Salisbury; two brothers, W. Raymond Savage, Newport News, Va. and Charles Savage, Pittsville; fifteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
The Rev. A. W. Goodhand will officiate. Interment will be in Parsons Cemetery.
Source Salisbury Times Aug 30, 1937
Of note: Her marker is incorrect - her death certificate has her death as 1937 not 1936.
Funeral services for Mrs. Melissa Wilkins, 67, widow of the late Levi James Wilkins, will be held at her Brown Street home at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
She was a daughter of the late W. Byard and Mary E. Purnell Savage and was also predeceased by her first husband Benjamin F. Parsons and her second husband Charles Baker.
She is survived by six children, Mrs. Emma (Parsons) Hayman, William E. Parsons, B. Frank Parsons, N. Welton Parsons, and Miss Mamie Baker, all of Salisbury; and Mrs. Anna (Parsons) Magonigal, Delair, N.J.; two stepchildren, Virgil Wilkins and Mrs. Isaac (Wilkins) Hearn, both of Salisbury; two brothers, W. Raymond Savage, Newport News, Va. and Charles Savage, Pittsville; fifteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
The Rev. A. W. Goodhand will officiate. Interment will be in Parsons Cemetery.
Source Salisbury Times Aug 30, 1937
Of note: Her marker is incorrect - her death certificate has her death as 1937 not 1936.
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1870 - 1936
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