Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Byrd, John H., 1948 

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John H. Byrd's Funeral Tomorrow 

  Funeral services for John Hamilton Byrd, 87, who died yesterday at the 
National Homapathetic [sic; Homeopathetic] Hospital in Washington, D.C., will 
be held tomorrow afternoon at the Baker Funeral Home. Dr. John G. Truitt, 
pastor of the Suffolk Christian Church will officiate. 

  Mr. Byrd was a former resident of Suffolk. 

  He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. J.P. Shearer of Washington, D.C., and a 
son, Ralph H. Byrd, of Evanston, Illinois; three grandchildren and one great 
grandchild. 

  The body will arrive in Suffolk today and will be taken to the Baker Funeral 
Home. 

  Interment will take place in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

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John H. Byrd Buried Friday 

  Final rites were conducted Friday afternoon for John Hamilton Byrd, who died 
in a Washington, D.C. Hospital on Wednesday, by Dr. John G. Truitt, pastor of 
the Suffolk Christian Church, at the Baker Funeral Home at 2:30 P.M. 

  The pall was made of red roses, and active pallbearers were Franklin 
Bradshaw, T. Roland Felton, Marshall Andrews, West Butler, Frank Butler, 
Jessie Harrell, P.M. Burton, and Thomas Andrews. 

  Burial took place in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 


John Hamilton BYRD, retired saw-mill machinist, 
b. 1861*, Somerset Co., MD*, d. 15 Dec 1948, Washington, DC, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block W, Lot 48*), 17 Dec 1948, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 25, No. 216, Thurs., Dec. 16, 1948, p. 1; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 25, No. 218, Sun., Dec. 19, 1948, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #92756507. 

The 1900 Census - Suffolk, Nansemond Co. - gives b. Apr 1867 DE. 

The 1940 Census - Suffolk, Nansemond Co. - gives age 78, b. MD. 

His wife's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Mar. 7, 1946, p. 3) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b630n5ob.txt 

His parents, John Hamilton William BYRD & Mary E.C. WINDSOR, m. 2 Mar 1858 
   in Somerset Co., MD.  His father, a ship's carpenter, registered for the 
   Federal draft 1 Jul 1863 in Dames Quarter, Somerset Co., MD. 


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