Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Benton, Cyrus W., 1943 

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CYRUS W. BENTON 

Benton Services Held Yesterday 

  Funeral services for Cyrus W. Benton were conducted yesterday afternoon at 
4:30 at the I.O. Hill and company Funeral Home by the Rev. R.E. Brittle and 
Dr. J.G. Truitt.  Mrs. Truitt and Miss Ruthanna Foard, accompanied by Mrs. 
Julian Goodwin, sang "Tell Mother I'll Be There" and "The Old Rugged Cross." 
Mrs. Brittle read Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar." 

  The casket was covered with a pall of white asters and red roses.  Pall 
bearers were Dudley Austin, J.W. Wood, E.B. Rawls, Clifford Austin, Floyd 
Lilley, and Miles Benton.  Honorary pall bearers were his fellow workers from 
the Nansemond Ordinance Dept. and friends of the family.  Burial was in 
Bethlehem church cemetery. 


Cyrus William BENTON, carpenter, 
b. 4 Apr 1894, Nansemond Co., d. 23 Sep 1943, Suffolk, 
interred in Bethlehem Christian Church Cemetery*, 24 Sep 1943, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 21, No. 156, Sat., Sep. 25, 1943, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

His parents, Samuel B. & Martha Ann (BYRD) BENTON, are also buried there. 
   Bethlehem list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/bethchr.txt 

Photos of his gravestone - added by AMDG & Jake Dog - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #138488366. 

D.Cert. 19531 (Suffolk #267) 


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