Franklin County NcArchives Obituaries.....Lankford, Rev. William E. 1922
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 12-08-1922
REV. WILLIAM E. LANKFORD

Rev. William E. Lankford, a prominent Baptist minister of this county, died at 
his home in Drewryville Tuesday night, December 5, in his sixty-fifth year. He 
had been in ill health for many months and was practically blind for the last 
two years of his life. Mr. Lankford had been in the ministry for eighteen years, 
the greater part of this service being given to the Baptist churches at 
Drewryville, Capron, Adams Grove and Hebron, all in this county, where he 
numbered a large circle of friends who admired him for his Godly qualities and 
his faithfulness fo the Master in all things.

He was a native of Franklin County, N.C., a son of the late Menalcus Lankford, 
who lived in this county for many years, and a brother, Mrs. L.R. Edwards of 
Franklin and of the late Dr. Livius Lankford of Norfolk. He is survived by his 
widow and by two children, McClenny and Janice Lankford.

Funeral services were conducted from Thomas Memorial Church, Drewryville, 
Wednesday, by Rev. C.T. Taylor of Emporia and interment was made in the family 
plot in the cemetery at Suffolk, with Masonic rites at the grave.

Note: s/o Menalcus and Martha McClenny Lankford, he and his parents are buried 
in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, Va.


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