Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Claud, Jesse E., 1938 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JESSE EDWARD CLAUD SUFFOLK, July 14 - Funeral services for Jesse Edward Claud, 29, of Isle of Wight County, who lost his life while bathing off Morgart's Beach, were conducted today at noon at Colosse Baptist Church, by the Rev. H. Conrad Blackwell of Oxford Methodist Church, Suffolk. Burial was in Colosse Cemetery. A choir from Oxford Church sang the hymn, "I Will Take My Vacation In Heaven" and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." A pall of Easter lilies and pink roses covered the casket. Active pallbearers were Edward, Woodrow and Waverly Whitley, Fleetwood Turner, Philip and Sidney Winborne, Causey Griffin and Harry Holland. Friends and neighbors of Suffolk and Isle of Wight County served as honorary pallbearers. [Jesse Edward CLAUD, of Isle of Wight Co., d. 9 Jul 1938, off Morgart's Beach, age 29, interred in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery, Collosse, 14 Jul 1938 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA)] [file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager.] [*Isle of Wight County Historical Society Grave Site Survey Task Force list gives E. Jesse Claud, Jr.: http://www.iwchs.com/Documents/Collosse_Rhodes%20Dr_Cemetery.doc] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/c430j4ob.txt