Isle of Wight-Orange County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Saunders, Herbert H., 1938 

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HERBERT HENRY SAUNDERS 

  Franklin - April 3. - (Special). - Herbert Henry Saunders, aged 68, died 
early this morning at his home at Morgart’s Beach after an illness of three 
months.

  Mr. Saunders was born in Gordonsville May 1, 1870.  He had resided at 
Morgart’s Beach and Carrsville for five years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. 
Myrtle Duke Saunders; a son, H.H. Saunders, Jr. of Franklin; a daughter, Mrs. 
J.J. Bradshaw, of Carrsville, seven grandchildren, William Henry Saunders, of 
Portsmouth, Mrs. Nurney Whitley, of Franklin, Mrs. Perkins Britt, of Norfolk, 
J.J. Bradshaw, Jr., Mason Bradshaw and Misses Margaret and Judith Ann 
Bradshaw, of Carrsville, and one great-granddaughter, Joan Whitley, of 
Franklin.

  Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at St. 
Luke’s Episcopal Church, on the Suffolk-Smithfield highway, by the Rev. 
Claudius F.Smith, of Richmond and the Rev. J. Sutherland-Watt, of Norfolk. 
Burial will be in the church cemetery.

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HERBERT HENRY SAUNDERS 

   Herbert Henry Saunders, beloved husband of Myrtle Buck Saunders died early 
Sunday morning at his home at Morgart’s Beach after an illness of three 
months.  Mr. Saunders was a native of Gordonsville, Va., being born there on 
May 1, 1870 and had lived at Morgarts’s Beach and Carrsville, Va., for the 
past five years.  He is survived by his wife, one son H.H. Saunders, Jr., of 
Franklin; one daughter, Mrs. J.J. Bradshaw of Carrsville, and seven 
grandchildren, William Henry Saunders of Portsmouth, Ohio; Mrs. Nurney 
Whitley, of Franklin; Mrs. Perkins Brett of Norfolk; J.J. Bradshaw, Jr.; Mason 
Bradshaw, Misses Margaret and Judith Ann Bradshaw of Carrsville and one great 
grandchild, John Whitley of Franklin.

   Funeral services were conducted on Tuesday afternoon from St. Luke’s 
Episcopal Church on Suffolk-Smithfield Highway at three o’clock by the Rev. 
Claudius F. Smith of Richmond and Rev. J. Sutherland Watt, of Norfolk.  The 
following were pall-bearers;  N.C. Barbour, L.L. Bryant, Edward Daughtrey, 
Ernest Bryant, of Franklin, Charlie Conkin and Colgate W. Whitehead of 
Smithfield, John Duke and P.B. Butler of Carrsville.


Herbert Henry SAUNDERS [SANDERS], retired train dispatcher, 
b. 1 May 1870, Gordonsville, Orange Co., 
d. 3 Apr 1938, at home, Morgart's Beach, 
interred in St. Luke's Memorial Park*, Benns Church, 5 Apr 1938, 
donated obit, publication unknown 
   posted with Find a Grave Mem. #189148193, by Martha Fontaine Byrum, 
   citing the Maggie Eley Duke & Audrey Eloise Duke Butler Collection; 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Thurs., Apr. 7, 1938, p. 1, col. 3 

*Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #18: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

His parents, John Francis & Lydia Joanna (MASON) SANDERS, are buried in 
   Maplewood Cemetery, Gordonsville. 


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