Halifax County NcArchives Obituaries.....Porter, David Thomas 1943
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 09-17-1943, P. 9
DAVID THOMAS PORTER

   David Thomas Porter, age 19, died Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the 
Roanoke Rapids Hospital. He was the son of the late Fenton A. Porter and Mrs. 
E.C. Davis. Besides his mother he is survived by the following brothers and 
sisters; B.R. Porter of Franklin, Mrs. David Kitchen of Franklin, Pfc. Leslie 
Porter of the U.S. Army, Mrs. H.F. Babb of Courtland, Mrs. Roger Drake of 
Franklin, and Ervin Porter of Courtland, also two half-brothers, Bobbie and 
Raymond Davis of Branchville.

   The body was brought to the Purviance Funeral Home in Boykins, funeral 
services being held at 4 p.m. Monday at the Newsoms Baptist Church with the Rev. 
C.P. Cleveland officiating, assisted by the Rev. Bailey Jones. Music was 
furnished by the combined Newsoms and Branchville choirs. Members of his high 
school class were flower bearers.

   Pallbearers were James and Thomas Coggsdale, Howard Simmons, Floyd and Paul 
Pope, Howard and Ben Babb and Calvin Davis. Burial was in the Newsoms cemetery.


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