Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Pope, John H., 1960 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JOHN HENRY POPE CARRSVILLE - Johnny Henry Pope, 76, died at 7 p.m. Tuesday at his home here. He was the husband of Mrs. Lula Crowder Pope and the son of the late Samuel H. and Mrs. Fannie Dick Pope of Southampton County. Mr. Pope was a native of Newsoms and had been living in the Carrsville community 14 years. He was a member of the Beaver Dam Baptist Church and of the Men's Bible Class. Surviving besides his wife are four sons, Hinton R. Pope, Eldridge J. Pope and James E. Pope, all of Carrsville, and Marvin B. Pope of Franklin; one brother, Charles B. Pope of Capron; one sister, Mrs. Jodie Stephenson, Capron, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A funeral service was held today (Thursday) at 2:30 p.m. in Beaver Dam Baptist Church by the pastor, the Rev. Edwin C. Thornton, Jr. Burial was in the church cemetery. "Johnny" John Henry POPE, Newsoms native, d. 23 Feb 1960, at home, Carrsville, age 76, interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Carrsville, 25 Feb 1960, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 25, 1960, Sect. 2, p. 4 *Beaver Dam list (BD-62), an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 4, 1982, p. 15A) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/p100l2ob.txt His parents are buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins. SCHS Cemetery Project, Beechwood list (BE-AX1I-12): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/p100j5ob.txt