Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Boothe, Joseph, 1880 

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JOSEPH BOOTHE

DEATH OF WELL KNOW AND PROMINENT CITIZEN

"Friend after friend departs/ Who hath not lost a friend." 

   How sad, but yet how true are the above lines. Today we are in health and ere 
tomorrow’s sun shall rise, ... 

   Mr. Joseph Boothe who departed this life on Saturday morning last, from an 
attack of typhoid pneumonia, in the 49 year of his age. From the first of his 
sickness, Mr. Boothe was quite ill, but his friends all hoped that he would be 
able to stand the disease and get well, and they did not despair until Friday 
night, then they lost all hope; delirium set in and he commenced gradually to 
sink until 10 o’clock on Saturday morning he breathed his last. The news soon 
spread and it awakened universal sorrow.

   The deceased at the time of his death, was President of the Farmer’s Bank of 
Nansemond, and senior partner of the well-known firm of Boothe & Baker. He was 
a member of the Christian Church at Cypress Chapel, where he was well known for 
his liberality and upright Christian character, and we know what we affirm when 
we say that there were few more charitable persons in our section than the 
deceased. His wife and son had already preceded him to the grave, and he leaves 
behind a sweet little girl as the sole survivor.

   His funeral took place from the Christian Church on Sunday afternoon at two 
o’clock, with the following citizens of our town acting as pallbearers; T.G. 
Elam, Jno. T. Nurney, Marmaduke Jones, Robert Riddick, T.H. Hines, and D.B. 
Dunbar. Mr. Holt, of the firm of Holt & Holt, of Norfolk, furnished the casket 
and had charge of the funeral.

   The procession moved from the residence promptly at the appointed time, the 
minister and undertaker in front, then the pallbearers with the casket, the 
Directors of the Farmers Bank in the rear of the corpse, and the relatives and 
family of the deceased. An immense congregation had already gathered at the 
church and nearly every seat was filled.

[CSA - 41st Va. Inf., Co.I, Sgt.] 

[Joseph BOOTHE, 15 Apr 1832 - 27* Mar 1880, 
 interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block D, Lot 22), Suffolk, 28 Mar 1880, 
 "The Christian Sun," Apr. 2, 1880] 

[*SCHS cemetery listing gives 29 Mar 1880, which was a Monday; 
 Saturday was the 27th. 
 The age given (49) also disagrees with the marker.] 

[file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
 and re-formatted by File Manager.]