Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bradshaw, Joel J., 1940 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JOEL J. BRADSHAW J.J. Bradshaw, 44, died at his home on First Avenue here Tuesday night of heart attack. Mr. Bradshaw was well known as an automobile salesman throughout this section. He was the son of the late Dr. Claude J. Bradshaw and Mrs. Clara Cutchins Bradshaw of Carrsville. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mason Saunders Bradshaw; four daughters, Mrs. Clara Bell Bradshaw Whitley and Misses Margaret and Judith Ann Bradshaw, all of Franklin, and Mrs. Perkins Brett of Laurinburg, N.C.; two sons, J.J. Bradshaw, Jr. and Mason Bradshaw of Franklin; a half-brother, Claude Bradshaw, Jr. and a half-sister, Miss Mollie Bradshaw, both of Carrsville, and three grandchildren, John Whitley of Franklin and Rodney and Mary Ann Brett of Laurinburg. Services were conducted from the residence this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Rev. Norman E. Taylor of Norfolk conducting. Pallbearers were Alvah Norfleet, Emmett Harrell, Linwood Baugham, Charles Rawls, Noah Bradshaw, Jr., Hudson Conwell, Nurney Whitley, and Royce Lankford. Burial was at old St. Luke’s Cemetery, Smithfield. [Joel J. BRADSHAW, automobile salesman, Carrsville native?, d. 12 Mar 1940, at home, Franklin, age 44, interred in St. Luke’s Memorial Park Cemetery*, Benns Church, 15 Mar 1940, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 15, 1940] [*contrary to the text of the obituary, he was not buried old St. Luke’s Cemetery, behind the church, but rather, in the adjacent St. Luke’s Memorial Park Cemetery- both are located on VA Hwy. 10, at Benns Church; Isle of Wight County Historical Society, Grave Site Survey Task Force list: http://www.iwchs.com/Documents/St%20Lukes%20Memorial%20Park_Benns%20Church%20Blvd_Cemetery.doc] Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com) and Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b632j7ob.txt