Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Darden, Blanche, 1954 

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BLANCHE DARDEN

   Blanche Darden, 8 [sic; 9*] year old daughter of Elmer Darden and Mrs. 
Martha Gardner Darden of Isle of Wight County, died in Raiford Memorial 
Hospital on Monday, December 13.

   Her death resulted from injuries reported to have been sustained when she 
was accidently caught in a corn-shucking machine.

   The little girl is survived by her parents; six sisters, Mrs. W.L. 
Hedgepeth of Portsmouth and Mrs. Hazel Johnson, Mrs. Nellie Rauss, Mrs. Lewis 
Turner, and Misses Lucille and Martha Ann Darden, all of Franklin; and nine 
brothers, Clayton, Clifton, Elmer, James C., Joseph, Julian Philip, Roy and 
Willie Darden.

   Final rites were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Beaver 
Dam Baptist Church by the pastor, Rev. Edwin C. Thornton, assisted by Rev. Ira 
D. Hudgins, pastor of the Franklin Baptist Church.  Interment was in the 
church cemetery.

   Pallbearers were John Robert, Linwood, Luther, Tom and William Darden, and 
Tommie Hedgepeth.


Blanche DARDEN, daughter of Elmer J. & Martha (GARDNER) DARDEN, 
b. 4 Feb 1945*, Isle of Wight Co., 
caught in corn-shucking machine, d. 13 Dec 1954, Franklin, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery (unmarked**), 15 Dec 1954, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 16, 1954 

**Added to the Beaver Dam list (BC-26) - an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project. 
   Her parents are also buried there: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

*Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. #28673 (Franklin #118). 


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