Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Spivey, Solomon E., 1937 

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SOLOMON SPIVEY FOUND DEAD TODAY 

Milner's Farmer Succumbs While Sitting In Easy Chair During Night 

  Solomon E. Spivey, aged 66, well-known Nansemond county farmer, was found 
dead to an easy-chair at his home near Milner's, Chuckatuck district, when 
members of the family arose early today. 

  Mr. Spivey had been in declining health for several months.  Failing to 
sleep well last night he sat in his easy-chalr and dozed.  He had been dead 
several hours when found. 

  Surviving Mr. Spivey are his widow, and five children: two daughters, Mrs. 
Dudley Saunders of Nansemond county and Mrs. I.C. Baker, of Norfolk; three 
sons, O.B. Spivey, Newport News; E.F. and L.P. Spivey, Portsmouth; two 
brothers, John Spivey, Messick, and Charlie Spivey, Seven Swings, N.C.; a 
sister, Mrs. Joe E. Crumpler, Windsor. 

  The body was brought to the funeral home of R.W. Baker & Co., Suffolk, where 
it will remain until Wednesday at 1:30 when the funeral cortege will depart 
for Beaver Dam Baptist church, where final rites will be conducted at 2:30 
p.m. by the Rev. Dr. I.W. Johnson, assisted by the Rev. Garland T. Moore. 

  Burial will be in the Beaver Dam cemetery.


Solomon Etheridge SPIVEY, farmer, 
b. 5 Mar 1872, Isle of Wight Co., d. 11 Oct 1937, at home, Milner's, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Carrsville, 13 Oct 1937, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 15, No. 172, Mon., Oct. 11, 1937, p. 6 

*Beaver Dam list (BD-71), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #42: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 


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