Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rawls, Elisha, 1899 

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Ministers in Conference. 

  Both the Baptist and Methodist ministers held their regular weekly meetings 
yesterday morning, and at both several visitors were present.  At the former 
Professor F.W. Boatwright, of the Richmond College, made a statement as to the 
proposed new buildings to be erected at his college.  The Rev. J.P. Essex, of 
Carrsville, stated that he preached the funeral of Mr. Elisha Rawls, aged 82 
years, Sunday.  Mr. Rawls was the oldest and one of the most influential 
members of Beaver Dam Baptist Church, Isle of Wight county.  In sixty-two 
years he only missed two church conferences, these being during his last 
illness. 

  The Rev. Dr. Alex. G. Brown, presiding elder of the Norfolk district; the 
Rev. Joseph H. Amiss, presiding elder of the Rappahannock district, and the 
Rev. V.W. Bargamin, of Churchland, were the visitors at the meeting of 
Methodist preachers.  Several interesting reports were received, and the 
feature of the session was a general discussion of the Twentieth Century 
Educational Movement. 


Elisha RAWLS, farmer, Confederate veteran, 
b. 14 Oct 1817, Nansemond Co., d. 18 Feb 1899, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Franklin, 19 Feb 1899, 
"Norfolk (VA) Landmark," Vol. 48, No. 40, Tues., Feb. 21, 1899, p. 2, 
   clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #180241689, 
   by Martha Fontaine Byrum 

*Additional information: 

Beaver Dam list (BD-63), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

A photo of his gravestone & U.D.C. marker - added by Natalie Padgett - are 
   also posted with Find a Grave Memorial #180241689. 

He served as a private in Co. K, 41st VA Infantry. 


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