Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Council, Claudius C., 1939 

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DEATH CLAIMS C. COUNCILL [sic; COUNCIL], 83 

Death Occurs Today Veterans Hospital In Hampton 

  Claudius Councill, 83, died at the Veterans' Hospital in Hampton at 7:15 
this morning. 

  The body was brought to the I.O. Hill funeral home in Suffolk and will 
remain there until Saturday afternoon at two o'clock, when it will be taken 
to the Beaver Dam Church.  Funeral services will be conducted at three o'clock 
Saturday afternoon by the Rev. Garland Moore. 

  Mr. Councill is survived by one nephew, F.L. Butler, of Portsmouth; one 
niece, Mrs. B.C. Eley of Suffolk, and several great nieces and nephews. 

  Active pallbearers at the funeral will be J.E. Rose, Willie Winborne, Johnny 
Rose, Tommy Daughtrey, S.V. Butler, A.R. Butler, John Duke, and Goode Johnson. 
Friends of the family will be honorary pallbearers. 

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Councill [sic; Council] Funeral At Beaver Dam Saturday, 3 P. M. 

  The funeral of Claudius Council, 83, will be held in Beaver Dam Church 
tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock by the Rev. Garland Moore. 

  Mr. Council died at the Veterans' Hospital in Hampton yesterday morning, and 
the body was taken to the R.W. Baker funeral home, instead of to the I.O. Hill 
funeral home as previously stated. 


Claudius C. COUNCIL, retired farmer, 
b. 19 Dec 1855, Isle of Wight Co., 
d. 26 Oct 1939, Kecoughtan, Elizabeth City Co., 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Carrsville, 28 Oct 1939, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 184, Thurs., Oct. 26, 1939, p. 1; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 185, Fri., Oct. 27, 1939, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Unmarked; added to the Beaver Dam list (BD-22), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

His parents, George Washington & Martha (HOLLAND) COUNCIL, 
   are also buried there. 

D.Cert. 24686 (Kecoughtan #191) gives his mother as Mary E. (HOLLAND) COUNCIL; 
   image posted with Find a Grave Memorial #179080450 
   by Martha Fontaine Byrum.  [no grave photo] 


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