Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Boykin, George W., 1958 

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GEORGE WASHINGTON BOYKIN 

  SUFFOLK - George Washington Boykin, 87, retired Benthall Machine Co. 
employe, died Wednesday 1:46 p.m. at Obici Memorial Hospital after a short 
illness. 

  Mr. Boykin was a son of the late John William and Mrs. Martha King Boykin 
of Isle of Wight County and a member of Main Street Methodist Church.

  He had been employed by Benthall about 35 years before his retirement last 
February.  In earlier years, he worked for Ramsey Packing Co. and the Suffolk 
Lumber Co. 

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Kate T. Boykin; four daughters, Mrs. George 
R. Eley; Mrs. Carl Howell and Mrs. L. Dewey Blanchard, all of Suffolk, and 
Mrs. Thomas B. Petty of Bayside; three sons, Earl W. Boykin, Claude J. Boykin 
and Archie W. Boykin, all of Suffolk; eight step-children, Mrs. Kenneth Wray 
of Orlando, Fla.; Mrs. T.N. Fisher of Newport News; Mrs. Thelma Carr of 
Washington; Mrs. E.G. Smith of Portsmouth; Mrs. Emmett Stancell, Pete Britton 
and Mrs. Robert Ward, all of Suffolk, and Roy L. Britton of Salem, Mass.; six 
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 

  Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the Baker Funeral 
Home by the Rev. George S. Lightner, pastor of Main Street Church and the Rev. 
John C. Mitchell, pastor of the First Baptist Church.  Burial will be in Holly 
Lawn Cemetery. 

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George W. Boykins [sic*] Buried Here Friday 

  Funeral services for George Washington Boykin were conducted Friday at 2:30 
p.m. at the Baker Funeral Home by the Rev. George S. Lightner, pastor of Main 
Street Methodist Church.  Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery. 

  The casket was covered with a pall of red and white carnations. 

  Pallbearers were Vernon Ford, Peeble O. Piland, Thomas Cowley, W.T. Myrick, 
M.J. Powell, J. Will Jordan, Dr. E.C. Joyner and Harvard R. Birdsong. 


George Washington BOYKIN, of Suffolk, farm-machinery pattern maker, 
   former house carpenter, 
b. 3 Feb 1871*, Isle of Wight Co., d. 17 Dec 1958, Suffolk, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 19 Dec 1958, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Thurs., Dec. 18, 1958, p. 8, 
   text posted with Find a Grave Memorial #253667073 [no grave photo]; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 36, No. 300, Sun., Dec. 21, 1958, p. 11 

*Additional information: 

Holly Lawn list, an extension of 
   the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

D.Cert. 31855 (Chuckatuck #326) gives BOYKINS, son of John William & 
   Martha (KING) BOYKIN; husband of Katie (TYNER BRITTON) BOYKIN. 

The 1870 Census gives b. Mar 1870, IoW.Co. poor house. 

His first wife, Dora Winfield (JONES) BOYKIN, and their sons Archer Winfield 
   and Clyde Jones BOYKIN, are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of 
   the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

His widow's obits ("Virginian-Pilot" & "Suffolk News-Herald," June 1967) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b250k1ob.txt 


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