Nansemond County-Lynchburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Kilby, Clinton M., Ph.D., 1948 

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Illness Fatal To Dr. C. M. Kilby, Suffolk Native 

  Dr. Clinton Maury Kilby, 73, professor of Physics and Astronomy at Randolph-
Macon Women's College since 1910, died early this morning after several years 
of ill health. 

  Dr. Kilby was the son of the late Wallace and Margaret Tynes Kilby of 
Suffolk, where he was born and raised. 

  He was educated at Randolph College, Ashland, and received his Ph.D. at 
Johns Hopkins University.  He also studied at Columbia University and the 
University of Chicago.  He had formerly taught at Woodberry Forest and been 
an instructor at Leigh University, Randolph-Macon College and Johns Hopkins 
University, before going to Randolph-Macon Women's College as head professor 
of the Physics Department. 

  He was a member of Main Street Methodist Church and was the author of a 
number of books on physics and is listed in Who's Who in America. 

  Dr. Kilby retired several years ago because of failing health.  Surviving 
him are his wife, Mrs. Jean Graham Kilby of Lynchburg; a sister, Mrs. G. Lloyd 
Bell of Suffolk; a nephew, Wallace Kilby Brown of Richmond; a niece, Mrs. 
Norment Alden of Washington, D.C.  He had a number of cousins in Suffolk and 
the surrounding community. 

  The body will be brought to Suffolk Monday and burial will be in Cedar Hill 
Cemetery Monday afternoon.  The hour of the services will be named later. 


Clinton Maury KILBY, Ph.D., Randolph-Macon College physics professor, 
b. 1 Nov 1874, Suffolk, d. 13 Mar 1948, Lynchburg, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block C, Lot 14*), Suffolk, 15 Mar 1948, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 24, No. 295, Sat., Mar. 13, 1948, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Jake Dog - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #80718830. 

His parents are buried in the same lot. 

D.Cert. 5397 (Lynchburg #153) 

His father (1843 - 1899) was a Confederate veteran, having served as a private 
   in Co. B, 16th VA Infantry. 

His father-in-law, Judge Samuel Cecil GRAHAM (1846 - 1923) was also a 
   Confederate veteran, having served as a private in Co. I, 16th VA Cavalry. 
   He is buried in Jeffersonville Cemetery, Tazewell, Tazewell Co. 


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