Halifax County NcArchives Obituaries.....Johnson, Benjamin Franklin 1933 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net April 30, 2013, 12:55 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 08-11-1933, P. 1 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN JOHNSON Benjamin Franklin Johnson died Wednesday afternoon at Raiford Hospital in his 65th year, after a brief illness. Mr. Johnson, who was a native of North Carolina, had made his home in Franklin for 50 years and had been an employee of the Camp Manufacturing Company for about 18 years. He is survived by his wife who was before her marriage, Miss Grace Sledge of Littleton, N.C., a brother, M.H. Johnson of Franklin, two nephews, three nieces and a large number of friends. Funeral services were held from the home in Chestnut Street yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock by the Rev. J. Sutherland-Watt, interment following Poplar Spring Cemetery. The pallbearers were: L.A. Whitley, F.W. Wellons, W.H. Jones of A., C.F. Whitfield, Frank Bunch, M.F. Redford, P.H. Drake and T. Cleveland Whitley. Mr. Johnson was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and of the Bruner Bible Class, members of the class acting as honorary bearers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/halifax/obits/j/johnson1566nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb