Chowan County NcArchives Obituaries.....Speight, Joseph Skinner 1950
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 12-29-1950, P. 7
JOSEPH SKINNER SPEIGHT

   Joseph Skinner Speight, 73, a well known resident of Franklin, died in 
Raiford Memorial Hospital on Tuesday morning, December 26, after an illness of 
several months.

   He was the son of the late Joseph F. and Mrs. Penelope Skinner Speight of 
Chowan County, N.C., and a member of High Street Methodist Church.

   Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Clara Eason Speight; two sons, Emmett 
L. Speight of Baltimore, Md. and Burnell Speight of Franklin; a daughter, Mrs. 
Evelyn F. Joyner of Franklin; two grandchildren, Elton Trotman of Trotville, 
N.C., and Mrs. Mariette Wiggins of Portsmouth; and a sister, Mrs. Susie Forehand 
of Tyner, N.C.

   Funeral services for Mr. Speight were held in the chapel of the Holland 
Funeral Home on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. R.D. Stephenson of 
Franklin and Rev. Otis L. Gilliam of Courtland officiating. Burial was in the 
cemetery at Nottoway Chapel, the active pallbearers being R.H. Allen, Edgar 
Blythe, James Dunlow, Vernard Scott, Harry Steinhardt and J. Edgar Weede.


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