Effie Gray Burress

Other Events:

• Census 1900: 1900, Clear Fork District, Tazewell, Virginia, USA
• Census 1910: 1910, Clear Fork District, Tazewell, Virginia, USA

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Died:
Obituary, Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 9 June 1973.

Mrs. Effie Gray Thompson, 84, of 1210 Highland Ave. Bluefield, died Friday evening in a Bluefield hospital following a long illness. Born in Tazewell County, Va., she was a daughter of the late Ants and Cardelia Waddell Burress. She was a widow of Andy J. Thompson, a former Bluefield plumbing business owner. She was a member of Grace Methodist Church of Bluefield, and had been a resident of Bluefield since 1907. Surviving are two sons, Ralph W. Thompson and Alfred A. Thompson, both of Bluefield; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Mercer Funeral Home in Bluefield. With Rev. Bill Baker officiating. Burial will follow in Maple Hill Cemetery in Bluefield, Va. Friends may call at the funeral home tbday from 5 and 9 p.m.

Effie married Andrew Jackson Thompson on 2 Nov 1910 in Tazewell County, Virginia. Andrew was born on 13 May 1890 in Virginia, United States; died in in Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Bluefield, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]