Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Crocker, James E., 1944 

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JAMES EDWARD CROCKER

CROCKER RITES THIS AFTERNOON

   Funeral services for James Edward Crocker, 72 year old lumber merchant, 
who died at his home on West Washington Street, at 6:20 p.m. Saturday, will 
be held at 3 p.m. today, in the R.W. Baker and Company Funeral Home.  The 
rites will be conducted by the Rev. A.L. Franklin, D.D., pastor of Main 
Street Methodist Church, of which congregation the deceased was a member.

   Mr. Crocker was the son of the late Joshua and Sarah Earley [sic*] Crocker, 
of Isle of Wight County, and had been a lumberman here for 50 years.

   Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Jane Brinkley Crocker; one son, Philip B. 
Crocker; two grandchildren; three nieces and one nephew.


James Edward CROCKER, lumber merchant, 
b. 12 Nov 1871, Isle of Wight Co., d. 16 Sep 1944, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 18 Sep 1944, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 29, No. 152, Mon., Sep. 18, 1944, p. 8 

*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 Jake Dog - is also posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #77565536. 

D.Cert. 19808 (Suffolk #253) also gives his mother as Sarah EARLY. 

Rather, she was Sarah A. (LEWIS EARLY) CROCKER (1827 - 1900), also buried 
   in Cedar Hill.  Her obits ("Virginian-Pilot," Jan. 9 & 10, 1900, p. 8) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/c626s3ob.txt 

His widow's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," June 24, 1954, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/c626j3ob.txt 

His father was a Confederate veteran, having served as a private in Co. I, 
   3rd VA Infantry.  When he remarried to Sarah in 1864, he was a cotton-
   factory hand. 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/c626j2ob.txt