Nansemond-Norfolk County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Moore, Arthur C., 1937 

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MOORE FUNERAL IS HELD HERE TODAY 

Prominent Resident Of Nansemond Dies Sunday Morning 

  Funeral services was held at 3 p.m. today for Arthur Moore, aged 66, who 
died at his home at Bennett's Creek, Nansemond county, yesterday morning. 

  The rites were conducted at the Hill funeral home here by the Rev. I.W. 
Johnson, D.D., and the Rev. C.C. Clark.  Burial in Cedar Hill cemetery. 

  Mr. Moore, long prominent in Nansemond county, was a son of the late John 
and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Moore.  He was a large-scale farmer.  He had been ill 
three weeks. 

  Surviving Mr. Moore are his widow, Mrs. Lucy Moore; five daughters, Mrs. 
R.W. Winner, of Suffolk; Mrs. H.G. Bradshaw, of Magnolia; Mrs. Wilbur Harris, 
of Portsmouth; Mrs. Leon Heffington, of Newport News; and Miss Jessie Moore, 
of Bennett's Creek; four sons, Clarence Moore, of Magnolia; Ocie and Wesley 
Moore, of Suffolk; and Staley Moore, of Bennett's Creek; a sister, Mrs. J.W. 
Duck, of Lynchburg, and 11 grandchildren. 

  The body was brought to Suffolk yesterday and rested at the Hill funeral 
home on West Washington street until the final rites this afternoon. 

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ARTHUR COTTON MOORE 

  Suffolk, Feb. 22 - Funeral services for Arthur C. Moore, of Bennett Creek, 
were conducted this afternoon at the funeral home of I.O. Hill & co. by Dr. 
I.W. Johnson, the Rev. C.C. Clarke and the Rev. R.E. Brittle.  Burial was in 
Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

  A male quartet composed of R.L. Baker, W.T. Tuttle, H.H. Harcum and J.E. 
Savage, accompanied by Mrs. I.W. Johnson, sang the hymns, "Blessed Assurance" 
and "Face to Face"; H.L. Baker sang a solo, "Lay My Head Beneath a Rose." 
A pall of lilies and roses covered the casket. 

  Active pallbearers were E.K. Brinkley, W.R. Milteer, Bruce Eberwine, G.S. 
Philhomer, D.T. Gardner, J. Frank Culpeper and W.E. Milteer.  Friends of the 
family were honorary pallbearers. 


Arthur Cotton MOORE, farmer, 
b. 30 Jun 1870*, Churchland, Norfolk Co., d. 6 Feb 1937, at home, Bennett's Creek, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block P, Lot 13*), Suffolk, 22 Feb 1937, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 14, No. 283, Mon., Feb. 22, 1937, p. 8; 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Tues., Feb. 23, 1937, p. 15 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Jenny - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #14453384. 

D.Cert. 4738 (Sleepy Hole #6) gives son of John MOORE, b. Baltimore, MD, & 
   Mary Elizabeth WILLIAMSON, b. Norfolk Co.; the informant was his son Ocie. 

They family appears in the 1880 Census - Sleepy Hole Dist., Nansemond Co. - 
   John, age 50, Mary, age 40, & Arthur, age 12, all b. VA. 

Note that his parents are not identical with John Henry & Mary Eliza (COHOON) 
   MOORE, buried in Mount Zion Christian Church Cemetery, Crittenden. 
   Mount Zion (Z-9), another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/mtzion.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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