Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pipkin, John A., 1959 

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Rites Tomorrow For John Pipkin 

  Funeral services for John A. Pipkin, of Warrenton, N.C., a former Suffolk 
resident, will be conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Blaylock Funeral Home, 
Warrenton by the Rev. W.A. Crow, pastor of Wesley Memorial Church.  Burial 
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Mahlon 
Elliott, pastor of Oxford Methodist Church officiating. 

  Mr. Pipkin, 96, died Sunday at 11 a.m. at Warren General Hospital, 
Warrenton, after a short illness. 

  He was a member of the Wesley Memorial Methodist Church.  He was affiliated 
with the late Millard Pinner of Suffolk in the jewelry business and moved to 
Warrenton, where he started the Pipkin Jewelry Store, which he operated until 
1958. 

  He became a member of the Suffolk Grays at the age of 14 years and served 
with the Grays in the Fourth Virginia regiment for 96 years and received a 
faithful service medal.  He was discharged with the rank of major. 

  He was a charter member of Rosemont Camp No. 2 of the Woodmen of the World. 

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katie Richardson Pipkin of Warrenton; a 
daughter, Miss Helen C. Pipkin of Portsmouth, and two nieces. 


Major John Albridgeton PIPKIN, retired jeweler,
b. 21 Nov 1860*, Nansemond Co., d. 15 Mar 1959, Warrenton, Warren Co., NC, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 135*), Suffolk, 25 Aug 1963, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 63, Mon., Mar. 16, 1959, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Wayne Lunde - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #53585987.  It shows b. 21 Nov 1862, 
   which was over a year after the death of his father. 

His parents are buried in Block D, Lot 26. 

No D.Cert. found.  

The Nansemond Co. B.Reg. (1860 #118) gives b. 21 Nov 1860. 

The Northampton Co. M.Reg. (1906 #32) gives b. Northampton Co. 

His will was probated 20 Mar 1959, and his widow qualified as executor. 
   (Warren Co., NC, Executors, Vol. 1-2 {1919-1964}, p. 160) 

His widow's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Aug. 25, 1963, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p125k1ob.txt 

His mother's (donated, 1915) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p125e1ob.txt 


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