Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cutchin, J. Franklin, 1919 

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JAMES FRANKLIN CUTCHIN

   J. Frank Cutchin, son of James and Mildred Ann Cutchin, was born 
August 21, 1860 and died November 6, 1919.  He was left fatherless when 
only two years old, and was preceded to the grave by father, mother and 
brother.  He leaves two sisters, Misses Sarah and Annie Cutchin to mourn 
their great loss.  He was educated in the neighborhood schools, Franklin, 
Kinsale, Reynoldson Male Institute, N.C., and Suffolk Male Academy.

   He taught school awhile and then went to farming in which he took 
great interest.  He was very fond of reading and writing and would write 
page after page with tablet in his lap and pillow on his side to rest his 
arm on.  He had a stroke of paralysis last July in his right side and 
could not write after that time.  It was a sad blow to him but he soon 
became reconciled to it.

   He had rheumatism about twenty years following by Brights disease and 
had not walked for seventeen years and seven months, and could not raise 
his hands high enough to feed himself for eleven years, but still he was 
bright and cheerful filing the place God had given him.  He went to 
Buffalo, Lithia Springs, White Springs, Fla., to a Richmond hospital, Hot 
Springs, Arkansas, and took a great many massages and other treatments but 
nothing could cure him.

   He was a real poet but never had any of his poetry gathered in book 
form.  He was a good church worker having joined the church when fourteen 
years old, never missing a conference if he could possibly attend.  His 
pastor said he carried more sunshine in his face than any person he had 
ever met.  He had a sweet voice and sang in the choir from boyhood days 
until a year or two ago.  Of course such a sufferer could not attend church 
all of the time.  He also cheered his home by singing and we have heard him 
sing many times lying on his back when his sister would go to the organ and 
start playing.  A lady once said to one of his sisters at church, "How is 
Brother Frank?"  She said, "He suffered severely yesterday but between pains 
he sang 'Praise the Lord'."

   He was conscious to the last and talked as long as he had strength enough. 
The day before his death he bade good bye to his sisters and said he was 
passing away without a pain.  He fell asleep in Jesus, just as one going to 
sleep.  Loving sisters and cousins watched by his bedside and ministered to 
him and when he breathed his last, all felt like there was another angel in 
Heaven, and that he would have many stars in his crown.

ONE WHO LOVED HIM.


James Franklin "Frank" CUTCHIN [CUTCHINS], poet and former teacher & farmer, 
b. 21 Aug 1860, Nansemond Co., d. 6 Nov 1919, Nansemond Co., 
interred in the CUTCHINS family cemetery*, Jasmine Ln., Nansemond Co., 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-23), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol3.txt 

Abstract of death certificate (1919-492-27618) posted at: 
    http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/vitals/deaths/c325f1dc.txt 


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