Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Byrd, Nathaniel W., 1959 

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Nathaniel Byrd Rites Tomorrow 

  Funeral services for Nathaniel Wright Byrd will be conducted Wednesday at 
3:30 p.m. at Liberty Spring Christian Church by the Rev. Raymond H. Phelts, 
pastor.  Burial will be in the church cemetery.  The body will be taken from 
the Hill Funeral home to the church at 2 p.m. 

  Mr. Byrd, 73, died unexpectedly Monday at 7:30 a.m. at his home in the 
Liberty Spring community in Nansemond County. 

  A deacon of the Liberty Spring Christian Church, he taught a Sunday school 
class 20 years.  He was a member of the Whaleyville Ruritan Club. 

  He was a son of W.H. and Texanna Wright Byrd of Nansemond County. 

  He is survived by his wife, Annie [sic; Amy] Austin Byrd; a daughter, Mrs. 
G.O. O'Berry of Harrellsville, N.C.; two sons, W. Harrell Byrd of Portsmouth 
and N.W. Byrd Jr. of Suffolk; two sisters, Mrs. J.A. Ellis of Suffolk and Mrs. 
C.L. Harris of Norfolk; two brothers, J.L. Byrd and J.P. Byrd of Nansemond 
County, and four grandchildren. 


Nathaniel Wright BYRD, retired farmer, 
b. 30 Dec 1885, Nansemond Co., d. 19 Oct 1959, at home, Nansemond Co., 
interred in Liberty Spring Christian Church Cemetery*, 21 Oct 1959, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 248, Tues., Oct. 20, 1959, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

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

Photos of his gravestone & family plot - added by Jake Dog - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #65343968. 

D.Cert. 26252 

His parents are buried in Bethlehem Christian Church Cemetery. 
   Bethlehem list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/bethchr.txt 

The obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Jan. 6, 1943, p. 8) of his first wife, 
   Elmyra (HARRELL) BYRD, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b630e11o.txt 


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