Isle of Wight-Warwick County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Stringfield, George W., 1922 

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GEORGE W. STRINGFIELD 

Newport News, Va., Dec. 1 - George W. Stringfield, pioneer citizen of Newport 
News and retired customs inspector, died yesterday morning at the home of his 
daughter in Washington, where he had been visiting for the past month.  The 
funeral will be held Saturday at 2:30 o'clock, from Trinity Methodist Church, 
where he served as one of its oldest officials.  Mr. Stringfield has been in 
the customs service for thirty years prior to retirement last July.  He was 74 
years old and came to this city from Isle of Wight County, where he was born. 
About a month ago, he went to Washington on an extended visit at the home of 
his daughter, Mrs. H.M. Grimes.  Two weeks ago he contracted pneumonia, from 
which he died.  Four children survive him - Mrs. H.M. Grimes, Washington; E.W. 
Stringfield, Philadelphia, and C.C. Stringfield.  Newport News.  His wife, who 
was Miss Alice Chatham*, of Isle of Wight County, died about eleven years ago. 


George W. STRINGFIELD, of Newport News, retired customs inspector, 
Isle of Wight Co. native, 
d. 15 May 1903, at daughter's home, Washington, DC, age 74, 
interred in Greenlawn Memorial Park**, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Dec. 2, 1922 

Additional information: 

**Find A Grave Memorial # 85187278 

*should read CHAPMAN - 

Geo. W. Stringfield m. 19 Dec 1871, in Isle of Wight Co., Rebecca A. Chapman 
{parents confused} 
(FamilySearch.org "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940") 


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