Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gaskins, Richard L., 1939 

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RICHARD L. GASKINS 

   Richard L. Gaskins, 67, died at his home, Rose Hill, in Kingsboro Suffolk 
1 a.m. Thurs. following a long illness which recently forced his retirement 
from business after a career of more than 40 years as a merchant in Suffolk. 

   Mr. Gaskins was a member of prominent Nansemond families on both sides of 
his family.  He was a son of the late John Richard and Fannie Savage Gaskins. 

   Going to Suffolk as a young man he established the Gaskins Music Company 
and did a thriving business for many years.  With his health failing, Mr. 
Gaskins sold his establishment this spring and it is continuing to operate 
under his firm name. 

   Mr. Gaskins was a member of Main Street Methodist Church. 

   Surviving him are his widow Mrs. Anna Hurff Gaskins, of Suffolk and a 
daughter, Miss Frances Gaskins, of Croizer [sic; Crozier] and Suffolk; five 
sisters: Mrs. L. Frank Ames, Mrs. John G. Eberwine, Mrs. Gertrude Arthur, Mrs. 
Glenwood Brinkley, all of Driver; and Mrs. Charles S. Berger of Norfolk; also 
a number of nieces and nephews. 

   Funeral services were conducted at the Gaskins residence Friday at 3 P.M. 
by the rev. Dr. A.L. Franklin.  Active pall-bearers, all nephews of the 
deceased, were Vernon G., Eart T., S. Bruce and George K. Eberwine; F. Marion, 
R.G., Irving T., and James S. Arthur, and James L. Edwards, all of Driver. 

   Burial was in Cedar Hill cemetery. 


Richard Leonidas Oliver GASKINS, retired Suffolk merchant, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 9 Nov 1939, at home, Suffolk, age 67, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block D, Lot 74*), Suffolk, 10 Nov 1939, 
"The Weekly News" (Windsor, VA), Wed., Nov. 15, 1939, p. 1 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_g.txt 

His parents are buried in the GASKINS-LEE family cemetery, Bennett's Creek. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Family Cemeteries, Vol. I, 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 


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