Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ashburn, Henley E., 1938 

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LAST RITES HELD FOR H. E. ASHBURN 

Conducted By Rev. Carroll At Western Branch Baptist Church 

  Funeral services for Henley E. Ashburn were held yesterday afternoon at 2:30 
o'clock at the Western Branch Baptist church, conducted by the Rev. W.V. 
Carroll.  The procession left the I.O. Hill funeral home at 1:30 for the 
church. 

  The hymns, "The Old Rugged Cross," and "Tell Mother I'll be There," were 
sung by Mr. and Mrs. W.V. Carroll, accompanied by Miss Nellie May Brinkley. 

  The casket was covered with a pall of lilies and pink rose buds.  There were 
many handsome floral tributes. 

  Active pallbearers were: John H. Powell, A.R. Baggett, J.S. Beale, J.W. 
Johnson, S.J. Ashburn, J.S. Williams, N.B. White, B.C. Eley.  Friends of the 
family acted as honorary pallbearers.  Burial was in the church cemetery. 


Henley Elisha ASHBURN, farmer, 
b. 8 Nov 1888, Nansemond Co., d. 11 Dec 1938, Suffolk, 
interred in Western Branch Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 3, Lot 7*), 
   1 Jan 1939, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 16, No. 258, Mon., Jan. 2, 1939, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

His parents, Buck & "Minnie" MINETTA L. (PURVIS) ASHBURN, are buried in the 
   same lot.  Western Branch list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/wernbr.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Martha Fontaine Byrum - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #144476112. 

D.Cert. 28588 (Chuckatuck #16) 


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