Isle of Wight-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Benjamin B., 1961 

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B. B. Jones, 68, Dies in Hospital; Rites Tomorrow 

  SMITHFIELD - Benjamin Beverly Jones, 68, retired Isle of Wignt County 
farmer, did Monday in McGuire Veterans' Hospital, Richmond, after a short 
illness. 

  Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at the Bullock 
Funeral Home.  Burial will be in the Old Brick Church Cemetery at Bacon's 
Castle. 

  A life-long resident of Isle of Wight Couniy, he was a World War I veteran 
and was a member of Bacon's Castle Baptist Church and the George F. Dashiell 
American Legion Post No. 49. 

  He was the son of the late James Jason Jones and Mrs. Mary Martha Jones of 
Isle of Wight County. 

  He is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Webb of Chuckauck; Mrs. James 
I. Turner; Mrs. Thomas Barrett, and Mrs. Vincen Moger, all of Smithfield; six 
brothers, Claudie E. Jones, Sr., Abram M. Jones, Sr., Edmond W. Jones, Sr., 
James C. Jones, Will B. Jones, all of Smithfield, and John W. Jones of Rescue. 


Benjamin Beverly JONES, retired farmer, WW-I veteran, 
b. 9 Aug 1892*, Isle of Wight Co., d. 8 May 1961, Richmond, 
interred in Old Brick Church Cemetery*, Bacon's Castle, 10 May 1961, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 39, No. 110, Tues., May 9, 1961, p. 3 

An obituary also appeared in the "Richmond Times-Dispatch," May 9, 1961. 

*Additional information: 

His parents, James Jason & Mary Martha (JONES) JONES, are also buried there. 

Photos of his gravestone - added by Penny (Newhouse) Cornelius & 
   Joseph Sullivan - are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #185089675; 
   Find a Grave calls it Lower Surry Cemetery. 

D.Cert. 12962 (Dist. 120 #206) gives b. 9 Aug 1893. 

Birthdate from WW-II draft card & gravestone. 


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