Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Edwin N. Jr., 1962 

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Edwin Edwards Stricken at Home 

  Funeral services for Edwin Nicholas Edwards will be conducted Thursday at 2 
p.m. at Baker funeral home by the Rev. Warren Landis, pastor of Wesley Chapel 
Methodist church, and the Rev. R.E. Brittle, pastor of Bethlehem Christian 
church.  Burial will be in Wesley Chapel Methodist church cemetery. 

  Mr. Edwards, 75, of the King's Fork community, died Tuesday at 5 p.m. in 
Obici Memorial Hospital after being stricken in his yard, apparently with a 
heart attack. 

  He was a son of Edwin Nicholas Edwards Sr. and Mrs. Indianna Archer Edwards 
of Isle of Wight county.  He was a retired carpenter. 

  Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Maggie Whitley Edwards of Nansemond county; 
five sons, B.W. Edwards, James N. Edwards and Alex C. Edwards of Nansemond 
county, Elvin M. Edwards of Suffolk and F.G. Edwards of Norfolk; and seven 
grandchildren. 

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E. N. Edwards, 75, Buried March 8 At Suffolk 

  Edwin Nicholas Edwards, 75, of King's Fork community died on Tuesday, March 
7, at 5 P.M. in the Obici Hospital after being stricken in his yard, 
apparently by a heart attack. 

  He was a son of Edwin Nicholas Edwards Sr. and Mrs. Indianna Edwards of Isle 
of Wight County.  He was a retired carpenter. 

  Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Maggie Whitley Edwards of Nansemond County; 
five sons, B.W. Edwards, James N. Edwards and Alex C. Edwards of Nansemond 
County, Elvin M. Edwards of Suffolk and F.G. Edwards of Norfolk; and seven 
grandchildren. 

  A funeral service was conducted in the R.W. Baker Funeral Home Thursday, 
March 8, at 2 P.M. by the Rev. Warren Landie of Wesley Chapel Methodist Church 
and Dr. R.E. Brittle of Bethlehem Christian Church.  Burial was in Wesley 
Chapel Church cemetery. 


Edwin Nicholas EDWARDS, retired carpenter, 
b. 11 Nov 1886, Isle of Wight Co., d. 6 Mar 1962, Suffolk, 
interred in Wesley Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery, Chuckatuck, 
   8 Mar 1962, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 40, No. 56, Wed., Mar. 7, 1962, p. 7; 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 43, No. 11, Thurs., Mar. 15, 1962, p. 7 

*Additional information: 

Wesley Chapel list (WC-7), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/wesleych.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #18670953. 

D.Cert. 8593 (Chuckatuck #75) 

His father was a Confederate veteran, having served in Co. A, 19th Battalion 
   VA Heavy Artillery.  He was wounded & captured at Sailor's Creek. 


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