Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Thomas P., 1954 

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Rites Today at 2 For Thomas Holland 

  SMITHFIELD - Funeral services for Thomas Patrick Holland, who died Friday 
morning at Obici Hospital, Suffolk, will be conducted today at 2 p.m. in the 
chapel of the Bullock Funeral Home by Dr. R. Furman Kenney, pastor of the 
Smithfield Baptist Church.  Burial will follow in Antioch Church Cemetery in 
Isle of Wight County. 

  Acting pallbearers will be Carl C. Irvine, Gordon L. Mumford [sic; Munford], 
H.O. Umphlette, William E. Mitchell, E.S. Turner and Hugh Gwaltney. 

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Thos. P. Holland, 82 Buried June 25, 1954 In Antioch Cem'tery 

  Thomas Patrick Holland, 82, died June 25, 1954 in the Louise Obici Memorial 
Hospital after a long illness. 

  A native of Gates County, N.C., he had lived in Smithfield for the past 22 
years and was a member of the Smithfield Baptist Church and of the Baracca 
Bible Class of that church. 

  Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Hattie Johnson Holland; two daughters, Mrs. 
J.R. Ellis and Mrs. C.H. Duck, and a foster son, Ralph R. Holland, all of 
Smithfield; nine grandchildren and one great grandchild, and several nieces 
and nephews. 

  Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 P.M. in the chapel of the 
Bullock Funeral Home with Dr. R. Furman Kenney, pastor of the Smithfield 
Baptist Church, officiating.  Burial was in the Antioch Cemetery. 


Thomas Patrick HOLLAND, retired farmer, 
b. 22 Mar 1872*, Gates Co., NC*, d. 25 Jun 1954, Suffolk, 
interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 27 Jun 1954, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 32, No. 151, Sun., June 27, 1954, p. 9; 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 37, No. 3, Thurs., July 1, 1954, p. 1 

*Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical 
   Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

A photo of his gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Mem. #104876182. 

D.Cert. 19968 (Suffolk #276) 

The 1900 Census - Windsor Dist., IoW.Co. - gives b. Mar 1871.  He was 
   enumerated with Charles [Lee] & Hattie J[osephine PERSONS] GRIFFIN. 

His widow's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald" & "Smithfield Times," Mar. 1957) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/h453h11o.txt 

They m. 11 Feb 1903.  (IoW.Co. M.Reg. 1903 #22) 

Ancestry.com VA Select Marriages 1785-1940 shows his parents as George W. & 
   Sarah E. BARLOW - transposed from the previous entry. 

His parents, Richard Goodman & Sophia Jane (ODOM) HOLLAND, m. 8 Nov 1866 
   in Nansemond Co. 

His father was a Confederate veteran, having served as a private in Co. K, 
   41st VA Infantry.  He was shot in the left breast and bayonetted in the 
   mouth, losing two teeth, at the Battle of the Crater, 30 Jul 1864.  He 
   farmed in Isle of Wight Co., Gates Co., NC, & Nansemond Co.  He applied 
   for a pension 25 May 1900, with the bullet still in his body, causing 
   much pain & shortness of breath. 


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