Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....Demolition, 1929 

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"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 7, No. 120, Mon., July 22, 1929, p. 8 

Suffolk Landmark Is Being Torn Down 

  One of Suffolk's landmarks being torn down. 

  One of the oldest frame residences on upper Main street is being razed.  It 
is the old home of the Boothes, who once lived in Suffolk, Joseph Boothe long 
years ago, prior to 1885, being a partner in the firm of Boothe and Baker, 
which firm conducted a large drygoods house on Washington Square.  Mrs. Mary 
Boothe Walker, now a resident of Portsmouth, is the owner of the building, and 
it is understood the material is to be shipped to Portsmouth for use in a 
building to be erected in that city. 

  While the building is one of the old ones here, the material contains much 
heart timber, and is in splendid state of preservation. 

  The present building is probably nearly a hundred years old, and is situated 
at number 206 North Main street. 

  After Mr. Boothe's death the house was occupied by his former partner, James 
R. Parker.  The house was erected by Thomas Sheppard [sic; Shepherd] and 
family, Mr. Sheppard being the grandfather of Mrs. Burwell Riddick, Sr. [sic; 
II]. 


Additional information: 

Merchant Joseph BOOTHE (1832 - 1889) was a Confederate veteran, having served 
   in Co. I, 41st VA Infantry - rising from private to sergeant.  He is buried 
   in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block D, Lot 22. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

Ada Browne (SHEPHERD; Mrs. Burwell Allen II) RIDDICK (1860 - 1936) is also 
   buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block D, Lot 71: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 

Her father Lt. William Samuel RIDDICK, Co. E, 1st NC Infantry, CSA, was KIA 
   17 Sep 1862 at Sharpsburg (Antietam). 

Her grandmother Ann Eliza (Mrs. Thomas Swepson) SHEPHERD (1813 - 1851) 
   is buried with two of her children in the BROWNE-MINTON family cemetery, 
   Nansemond Pkwy.  Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (NV-I-14), 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 


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