Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Butler, Rev. Harrison H., 1924 

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HARRISON HOLLAND BUTLER

FUNERAL OF CHRISTIAN MINISTER CONDUCTED

     Suffolk, Feb. 19 - Funeral services for the Rev. Harrison H. Butler, for 
more than forty years in the ministry of the Christian Church, held this 
afternoon at the Suffolk Christian Church, were conducted by Rev. Dr. W.W. 
Staley, assisted by the Rev. H.S. Hardcastle, Rev. Dr. I.W. Johnson and 
Ministers of other denominations of the city.

     The choir of the church sang "Day is Dying in the West," "Kissed by the 
Angel of Peace," and "Rock of Ages."

     Active pallbearers were Dr. D.F. Griffin, Major W.T. Johnson, M.W. Joyner, 
J.R. Ellison, John M. Eley, E. F.Parker, of Cypress Chapel; John M. Butler, and 
Sam Pierce, of Norfolk.

     The members of Suffolk Lodge of Masons were honorary pallbearers.  The 
Masonic burial service was used at the grave in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Note: Fifteen Ministers present: A.L. Kenyon, F.B. McSparren, F.O. Crimminger, 
F.B. Oglesby, I.W. Johnson, H.S. Hardcastle, H.E. Rountree, W.D. Harward, 
J.H. Lightbourne, T.E. White, J.G, Truitt, S.K. Emurian, J.L. Foster, Elisha 
Bradshaw, and W.W. Staley.

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THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS 

[...] 

TEN YEARS AGO 

Taken from The Suffolk News, Monday, February 18, 1924. 

  Rev. H.H. Butler, the Marrying Parson, died Saturday at his home on Chestnut 
Street.  Mr. Butler was born 72 years ago in Isle of Wight County and for the 
past 44 years has been engaged actively in the Christian ministry, doing much 
missionary work.  He established churches which he has lived to see become 
strong and prosperous.  He was pastor of the churches at Cypress, Antioch, 
Bethlehem, Mount Carmel, Oakland, Crittenden, Berea, Windsor, Oak Grove and 
Isle of Wight.  He held services in private homes, school houses and other 
places where he could lay the nucleus of a congregation. 

  He was known all over Eastern North Carolina and' Virginia as the "marrying 
parson," having performed the ceremony for hundreds who used Suffolk as the 
Grena Green. 


Rev. Harrison Holland BUTLER, Congregational Christian minister, 
b. 20 Jul 1851, Isle of Wight Co., d. 18 Feb 1924, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 33*), Suffolk, 19 Feb 1924, 
"Suffolk (VA) News," Mon., Feb. 18, 1924; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 11, No. 283, Mon., Feb. 19, 1934, p. 2 

*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 survived until age 105.  Her (1961 "News-Herald") obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b346s1ob.txt 


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