Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bryant, James S., 1933 

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JAS. S. BRYANT, WAR VET, DIES 

Succumbs to Long Illness This Morning At Naval Hospital; 
   Funeral Here Tomorrow Afternoon. 

  James S. Bryant, aged 38, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Bryant, 113 Morgan 
street and a veteran of the World War, died at the Naval Hospital at 
Portsmouth this morning.  He had been ill for more than a year. 

  Funeral services will be held from the home of his parents tomorrow 
afternoon and burial will be made at Cedar Hill cemetery.  The Rev. H.S. 
Hardcastle, pastor of the Christian Church, will be in charge of the service. 
The hour of the funeral has not been set. 

  Surviving Mr. Bryant are his widow, Mrs. Marie Pierce Bryant and five 
children; James S., Jr., Virginia, Carl Bruce and Anita; his parents; two 
sisters, Mrs. J.A. Foster and Mrs. Willis E. Cohoon, and a brother, Robert 
V. Bryant, all of Suffolk. 

  Mr. Bryant was serving in the army at the declaration of war and continued 
during the conflict as a machine gunner.  Following the war he made his home 
at Johnstown, Pa.  On a trip to California he was injured and returned to his 
former home here.  He had been a patient at the Naval Hospital for about 
eighteen months. 


James Staley BRYANT, painter, Army veteran of WW-I, 
b. 31 Jan 1893, Suffolk, d. 5 Apr 1933, Portsmouth, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 7 Apr 1933, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 11, No. 11, Wed., Apr. 5, 1933, pp. 1 & 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 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Mem. #94635222. 

D.Cert. 9498 gives parents unknown. 

His parents, James Henry & Martha Sarah "Sadie" (HINES) BRYANT, and 
   paternal grandparents are buried are also buried there. 

His widow, Violet Marie (PIERCE BRYANT BROWN McNIDER; Mrs. Lawrence O.) 
   BAINES (1901 - 1983), is buried in Block H, Lot 10. 
   Her obit ("Daily Press," Jan. 27, 1983) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b520m2ob.txt 


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