Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Butler, Solomon V. Sr., 1952 

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SOLOMON VALENTINE BUTLER 

HEART ATTACK KILLS EX-DEPUTY SHERIFF IN CARRSVILLE HOME 

   Solomon Valentine Butler, Sr., 72, former deputy sheriff of Isle of 
Wight County and at the time of his death a special officer for the county 
and for Camp Manufacturing Co., died at the residence of Carrsville on 
Tuesday, April 29, as the result of a heart attack.

   Mr. Butler, better known as "Demas," was the son of the late Solomon and 
Alice Rebecca Johnson Butler of Isle of Wight County.  He was a member of 
the Beaver Dam Baptist Church.

   Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Rose Butler of Carrsville; two 
daughters, Mrs. James R. Duck of Franklin and Mrs. William M. Williams of 
Norfolk; a son, Solomon V. Butler, Jr., of Owens, King George County; and 
five grandchildren.

   Funeral services were conducted in the chapel of W.J.M. Holland & Sons on 
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock by Revs. Edwin C. Thornton, pastor of Beaver 
Dam Baptist Church, and N.C. Clifton of Elberon, Surry County, a former 
pastor.

   Interment was in the Beaver Dam Church cemetery, the active pallbearers 
being Herman Beale, T.B. Bell, W.L. Burrow, Clyde Cutchin, George Hall, 
Russell Laine, W.G. O’Brien and A.E.S. Stephens.


Solomon Valentine "Demas" BUTLER, Sr., special officer, 
former IoW deputy sheriff, 
b. 31 Dec 1879, Isle of Wight Co., d. 29 Apr 1952, at home, Carrsville, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery**, near Franklin, 1 May 1952, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 2, 1952, p. 1 

*Beaver Dam list (BD-16), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. (#9764) gives b. Southampton Co., other records 
   indicate he was b. Nansemond Co. 


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