Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Saunders, Thomas A., 1932 

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T. A. Saunders, Prominent Business Man of Ivor Passes Away; Aged 72 

  Ivor, Va. - T.A. Saunders, aged 72 years, died at his home in Ivor, 
Virginia, March 23, following a brief illness. 

  Mr. Saunders had been a resident of Southampton County for forty-four years, 
during which time he has been engaged in the lumber business and farming 
extensive scale and has been prominently connected with the affairs of his 
town and county.  He was at the time of his death Vice-President of the Bank 
of Sussex and Surry, of which institution he had been a member of the Board of 
Directors since its organization. 

  The deceased was a member of the Masonic, Woodman of tne World, and Odd 
Fellow Lodges, and a member of the Ivor Baptist Church of which he was a 
Deacon.  He had served as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of 
Southampton County and as Postmaster at Ivor. 

  Mr. Saunders was married twice, his first wife being Laura Ann Gaskins of 
Isle of Wight County.  His second wife was Mary A. Bell, of Ivor. 

  The deceased is survived by his widow, and five children, L.T. Saunders, 
Thos. A. Saunders, Cofer C. Saunders and Mrs. R.H. Pulley, of Ivor, and Homer 
S. Saunders, of Roanoke. 

  Funeral services will be conducted this afternoon at the Baptist Church at 
Ivor.  Interment will be made at Antioch Church in Isle of Wight County. 


Thomas Alonzo SAUNDERS, farmer & lumberman, 
b. 28 Oct 1859, Isle of Wight Co., d. 23 Mar 1932, at home, Ivor, 
interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 25 Mar 1932, 
"Tri-County News" (Wakefield, VA), Vol. 4, No. 25, Fri., Mar. 25, 1932, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical 
   Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Ron Stewart - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #92739401. 

D.Cert. 7145 (Berlin & Ivor #6) 

His widow's obit ("Sussex-Surry Dispatch" & "Smithfield Times," Feb. 1948) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/s536m4ob.txt 

His father, Thomas H. SAUNDERS, was a private in Co. D, 16th VA Infantry, CSA. 
   He was KIA 22 Jun 1864 at Wilcox's Farm, near Petersburg. 


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