Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Griffith, Richard T., 1957 

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Richard T. Griffin [sic; Griffith] Buried at Cypress 

  Funeral services for Richard Taliferro [sic; Taliaferro] Griffith, who died 
Tuesday, were conducted yesterday at 3:30 p.m. at the R.W. Baker and Co. 
Funeral Home by the Rev. Ellis N. Clark, pastor of the Cypress Chapel 
Christian Church, and the Rev. R.E. Brittle, pastor at the Bethlehem Christian 
Church.  Burial was in the Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery. 

  Mrs. Evelyn Bynum and Mrs. E.N. Clark sang "Lord I'm Coming Home." 

  The pall was of red and white carnations and baby's breath.  Pallbearers 
were J.L. Lawrence, C.S. Warren, Zackery Perry, Wallace Brinkley, R.C. Badger, 
Marion King, and Harry P. Taylor. 


Richard Taliaferro GRIFFITH, farmer, 
b. Jan 1861*, NC, d. 16 May 1957, 
interred in Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery*, 19 Dec 1958, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 35, No. 117, Fri., May 17, 1957, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Cypress Chapel list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cypress.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #103617668. 

No VA or NC D.Cert. found 

Birthdate from 1900 Census - Maney's Neck, Hertford Co., NC. 

The 1880 Census - Maney's Neck, Hertford Co., NC - gives age 15. 

The 1940 Census - Cypress Dist., Hertford Co., NC - gives age 81. 

His parents, Alfred G. & Susan A. (JOHNSON) GRIFFITH, m. 3 Feb 1859 
   in Gates Co., NC. 


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