Isle of Wight-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Josiah B., 1939 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JOSIAH BENJAMIN EDWARDS Funeral services for Josiah Benjamin Edwards, widely know farmer of Isle of Wight were held Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 at the grave in Mill Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery conducted by the Rev. Mr. Halzbach and the Rev. Mr. Henley. The funeral procession left the Roberts and Johnson Funeral Home in Smithfield at 2:15 Tuesday p.m. Active pallbearers were, Joe Bell, Corbitt Nurney, Wilbur and Randolph Moody, Spratley Edwards, Ray McEnerney. Friends and neighbors served as honorary pallbearers. Josiah Benjamin EDWARDS, of Smithfield, farmer, b. 20 Dec 1878, Surry Co., d. 6 Aug 1939, Isle of Wight Co., interred in Mill Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery*, 8 Aug 1939, "The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 20, No. 19, Aug. 10, 1939, p. 1, col. 7 *Additional information: Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} Mill Swamp list (#55): http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. #18345 {Hardy #12}. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn Keen (VAHistoricHouses@aol.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/e363j14o.txt