Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Harcum, Elmo, 1966 

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ELMO HARCUM

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Elmo Harcum was conducted Sunday at 2:30 
p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. J. Walter Martin of 
Temple Baptist Church, Newport News.  Burial was in Colosse Baptist Church 
Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were G.G. Ballard, Loftin Rhodes, Georgia Bowden, Palmer 
Spivey, Archie Spivey and Grafton Spivey.

   Harcum, 74, a retired employee of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, died 
Friday morning in a Newport News hospital.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Erma Redd Harcum and a son of William B. [sic; 
[T.*] and Mrs. Addie Vaughan Harcum.

   A native of Southampton County, he was a member of Colosse Baptist Church 
and Retired Men's Club of Standard Oil Co.

   He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Dolly Mt. Castle [sic; Mountcastle] of 
Newport News; five brothers, Emory Harcum, Otto Harcum and J.B. Harcum of 
Franklin, Otis Harcum of Virginia Beach, and the Rev. Fred Harcum of Lebanon, 
Va., a sister, Mrs. R.L. Boone of Portsmouth; and three grandchildren.


Elmo HARCUM, retired Standard Oil employee, 
b. 29 Aug 1891, Southampton Co., d. 29 Jul 1966, Newport News, 
interred in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery*, Collosse, 31 Jul 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 4, 1966, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #44: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 22, 1962, p. 2) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/a120j2ob.txt 

His parents are buried in Sycamore Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 4, Plot 33). 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-39): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 4, 1938, p. 5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h625w1ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 18, 1939, p. 5), 
   with their marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h625a1ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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