Northampton County NcArchives Obituaries.....Francis, Jesse Godwin 1957 ************************************************ 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 June 12, 2014, 8:10 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 03-28-1957, SECT. I, P. 5 JESSE GODWIN FRANCIS Funeral services for Jesse Godwin Francis, 78, who died early Tuesday morning, March 26, at his home near Boykins, were conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in Hebron Baptist Church with Rev. William Stennett, pastor, officiating. Mr. Francis, a farmer and native of Northampton County, N.C., was the husband of Mrs. Dennie Johnson Francis and the son of the late Jesse Carter and Mrs. Albert Francis. Besides his wife, he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Lottie Vick of Boykins; three sons, Nathan Francis of Conway, N.C., and Herbert and Jesse Francis, both of Boykins; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Pierce of Sedley and Mrs. Liza Jane Pope and Mrs. Elma Spates, both or Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; 14 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Burial was in the Conway, N.C., cemetery. Active pallbearers were Roy Ricks, Allen Harris, William Taylor, George Bryant, Otis Davis and Collis Davis. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/northampton/obits/f/francis1683nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb