Edna Watkins Morton

1896 - 1980  (83 years)

• Name	Edna Watkins Morton
  Born	28 Oct 1896	Minas Gerais, Brazil
  	Social Security Death Index Name: Edna Sterrett SSN: 231-62-0910 Last Residence: 24472 Raphine, Rockbridge, Virginia BORN: 28 Oct 1896 Died: May 1980 State (Year) SSN issued: Virginia (1963)
  Gender	Female
  Died	25 May 1980	Rockbridge Co. VA
  	Virginia, Deaths, 1912-2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia Name: Edna Morton Sterrett Gender: Female Race: White Age at Death: 83 Birth Date: 28 Oct 1896 Death Date: 25 May 1980 Death Place: Raphine, Rockbridge, Virginia Registration Date: 30 May 1980 Father: Charles Read Morton Mother: Mary Thompson Spouse: Madison Mcclung Sterrett Sr [Jr.]
  Buried	New Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery Raphine Rockbridge Co. VA
  	Grave location, obituary, and tombstone photo: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63687317
  Notes	CENSUS RECORDS 1910 Census Name: Edna W Morton Age in 1910: 14 Birth Year: abt 1896 Birthplace: Brazil Home in 1910: Courtland, Spotsylvania, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Niece Marital Status: Single Father's Birthplace: Virginia Mother's Birthplace: Virginia Household Members: Samual G Howison 60 Nannie W Howison 48 Margaret M Howison 25 Mary G Howison 23 Nannie W Howison 16 Edna W Morton 14 1930 Census Name: Edna D Starritt [Sterrett] Birth Year: abt 1897 Gender: Female Race: White Birthplace: Virginia Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Wife Homemaker?: Yes Home in 1930: Walkers Creek, Rockbridge, Virginia Age at First Marriage: 26 Attended School: No Able to Read and Write: Yes Father's Birthplace: Virginia Mother's Birthplace: Virginia Able to Speak English: Yes Household Members: Madison M Sterrett 30 Edna D Sterrett 33 Mary T Sterrett 6 Madison M Sterrett 4 OBITUARY New-Gazette, Lexington, VA; 28 May 980 Edna Morton Sterrett, 83, of Brownsburg died Sunday morning at her home. She was born Oct. 28, 1896 in Araguari, Brazil, the daughter of the late Rev. Charles Read Morton and Mary Thompson Morton, Presbyterian missionaries, who died in her infancy. She was reared in the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. S.G. Howison in Fredericksburg. Mrs. Sterrett was married to the late Madison McClung Sterrett, a prominent farmer and civic leader who died in 1975. The historic Sterrett farm was known in earlier years as Mulberry Grove. She was a member of the New Providence Presbyterian Church and a graduate of Fredericksburg Normal School. Mrs. Sterrett is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Bruce Alexander Lipscomb of Fairfield; a son, Madison McClung Sterrett Jr.; three sisters [note: they were actually her first cousins with whom she was raised in Fredericksburg], Mrs. J. Brooks Smith of Baltimore, MD, Miss Mary Graham Howison and Mrs. W.T. Stephens, both of Fredericksburg; a half-sister, Mrs. Marion J. Murray of High Point, N.C.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. The Rev. Thomas T. Biggs conducted a funeral yesterday at the New Providence Presbyterian Church. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
  Person ID	I30995	Master File
  Last Modified	24 Aug 2015

  
  

  Family	Madison McClung Sterrett, Sr.,   b. 01 Oct 1899, Rockbridge Co. VA ,   d. 19 Mar 1975, Rockbridge Co. VA  (Age 75 years)
  Children	1. Mary Thompson Sterrett,   b. 26 Dec 1923, Rockbridge Co. VA + 2. Madison McClung Sterrett, Jr,   b. 10 Nov 1925, Rockbridge Co. VA ,   d. 27 Feb 2013, Rockbridge Co. VA  (Age 87 years)
  Last Modified	24 Aug 2015
  Family ID	F13055	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart