Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Costen, Payton A., 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ TOWN OF SUFFOLK Some Account of Presbyterian Benefit Opera Meeting of Board of Supervisors - Incipient Fire Extinguished - Memorial Exercises - Fish Fry - College Musicale - Death of an Infant. (Special to Virginian-Pilot.) Suffolk, Va., May 18. - [...] INFANT'S DEATH. Porter [sic*] A., six-months-old infant of Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Costen, died to-day after a brief illness. The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. J.F. Love, at the residence, 63 Pinner street, at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. The burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Payton A. COSTEN, son of "Lonnie" L.J. & Olivia G. (COFIELD) COSTEN, d. 18 May 1899, Suffolk, age 6 months, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 19 May 1899, "Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Vol. 3, No. 42, Fri., May 19, 1899, p. 8 clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #246061631, by Martha Fontaine Byrum *Additional information: His parents are also buried there. Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt Find a Grave Memorial #246061631 gives Porter A., d. May 1899. [no grave photo] Photos of his gravestone - added by Mike Bogoslawski, USN Ret) & Hixburg23958 - are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137085782, which gives b. 1908, d. 1909. His father's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," May 26, 1932, p. 1) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/c235l1ob.txt His mother's obit ("Norfolk Landmark," Nov. 5, 1901, p. 6) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/c235o1ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/c235p1ob.txt