Isle of Wight-Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Butler, Samuel O. Sr., 1973 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ SAMUEL OPHERELL BUTLER A funeral service for Samuel Opherell Butler Sr., 77, of Apt. 23 Airport Village, was held Tuesday at 3 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Edwin C. Thornton Jr. and the Rev. Rudolph Kidd. Burial was in Beaver Dam Church cemetery. A native of Southampton County*, he was a son of David L. and Ada Judkins Butler and the husband of Mrs. Eulalah Minton Butler. He was a member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church. He was a retired miller. Besides his widow, surviving are three sons, Samuel O. Butler, Jr., William Lester Butler, and Marvin Minton Butler, and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Howell, all of Franklin; two brothers, Harry M. Butler of Portsmouth and Herman C. Butler of Carrsville and a grandson. Samuel Opherell BUTLER, Sr., retired Lee's Mill miller, b. 19 Sep 1895, d. 21 Jan 1973, Franklin, interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery**, near Franklin, 23 Jan 1973, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 25, 1973, A-8 **His parents are also buried there. Beaver Dam list (BD-16 & -14), an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt While his D.Cert. (#73-000350) gives b. Southampton Co., other records indicate he was b. Nansemond Co. His middle name appears variously O'pherel/Opherel/Opherell; his gravestone gives Samuel O. His father's obit ("Tidewater News," June 26, 1931, p. 1) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b346d3ob.txt His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 13, 1948, p. 3) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b346a5ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b346s5ob.txt