Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lankford, Annie B. Byrd, 1947 

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ANNIE BELL BYRD LANKFORD 

   Mrs. Annie Byrd Lankford, aged 62 years, widow of N.B. Lankford of Isle of 
Wight County, died Friday morning, August 15, at Lakeview Hospital, Suffolk, 
after an illness of a few weeks.

   Mrs. Lankford was the daughter of the late John T. and Mattie Hedgepeth 
Byrd of Isle of Wight County.  She was a member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church, 
and since the death of her husband had lived with her children.

   She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. E.A. Gray of Norfolk, Mrs. Ray P. 
Oliver of Suffolk, Mrs. Clyde Vaughan of Carrsville, and Mrs. Archie Edwards 
of Windsor, five sons, O.L., H.A., and Clifton Lankford of Norfolk and Edward 
and Bernard Lankford of Carrsville; sixteen grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. A.D. Holland of Suffolk.

   Funeral services were conducted at Beaver Dam Baptist Church on Sunday 
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock by the pastor, Rev. Cecil Clifton, and Rev. James 
White of Norfolk.  Interment was in Beaver Dam Cemetery, with the following 
acting as pallbearers: Nat Edwards, Johnnie Stephens, Curtis Rhodes, Melvin 
Spivey, Ryland Duck, Randall Vaughan, Reginald Vaughan, and Garland Vaughan.


Annie Bell (BYRD; Mrs. N. Bynum) LANKFORD, 
Isle of Wight Co. native*, d. 15 Aug 1947, Suffolk, age 62, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery**, near Franklin, 17 Aug 1947, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 22, 1947, p. 7 

**Beaver Dam list (BD-56), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," July 14, 1939) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/l521b2ob.txt 

*Their marriage record (26 Dec 1901, IoW.Co.) gives b. Nansemond Co. 


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