Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Albert S., 1939 

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ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSON

   Albert Sidney Johnson, 76, retired business man and farmer of Franklin, who 
had lived here for 45 years, died at his home on North High Street Friday 
night.  He had been in ill health for two years.  The son of the late James W. 
and Margaret West Johnson, the deceased was a native of Isle of Wight county. 

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elma Whitfield Johnson; two daughters, 
Misses Helen and Margaret Johnson of Franklin; two sons, Shelbourne Johnson of 
Winston-Salem, N.C. and Leigh W. Johnson of Franklin; a granddaughter Eleanor 
Rose Johnson of Winston-Salem; two sisters, Mrs. Ida Barnhill of Suffolk, and 
Mrs. Ella Spivey of Norfolk; two brothers, J. Goode and Jesse Johnson of 
Carrsville. 

   Services were conducted at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the residence 
by his pastor, the Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Franklin Baptist Church, assisted 
by the Rev. B.B. Bland and Dr. Elwood W. Jones.  Paul Nachlas sang "Have Thine 
Own Way Lord."  Interment was in Poplar Spring Cemetery here, pallbearers 
being Letcher Eley, Geo. Caroon, R.C. Councill, Jas. I Beale, Jr., Roy 
Edwards, H.L. Westbrook, L.B. Norfleet and J.C. William, Jr. 


Albert Sidney JOHNSON, retired business man and farmer, 
b. 1863, Isle of Wight Co., d. 30 Nov 1939, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2*, Plot 83), Franklin, 3 Dec 1939, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 8, 1939, p. 5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His widow's 1970 obits are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525e1ob.txt 

His parents, James Washington & Margaret Ann (WEST) JOHNSON, are buried in 
   Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery, near Carrsville. 
   Beaver Dam list (BD-50), an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 


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