Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, John H., 1908 

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JOHN HENRY SMITH 

               DIED. 

               Smith. 

  At his son's, near Savage Crossing, Nansemond Co., Va., Sept. 17, 1906, Mr. 
John Henry Smith, aged about 74 years.  He was in feeble health but no one 
knew that the end was so near.  The revival meeting was going on at Bethlehem, 
his old church, where he loved to go, as he had been a faithful member there 
for years.  On Thursday he said, "I want to go to the meeting tomorrow" and 
his son, who was devoted to his father, said, "Well get ready and go.  I think 
you will be able to go."  So on Thursday night just before or about the time 
he was getting ready to retire and like a child glad, looking forward for the 
morrow, to come to go out once more to his old church he loved so well, he was 
taken ill and in a short time he passed over the river to the church 
triumphant.  He came to Bethlehem Friday, not to attend the revival, but to 
have his funeral service conducted by his old pastor and to have his remains 
laid to rest in the old church cemetery.  He leaves to mourn their loss, eight 
children, five sons, and three daughters, twenty-nine grand-children and many 
friends.  The Lord bless and comfort them all. 
                      H.H. Butler. 


John Henry SMITH, retired farmer, 
b. 2 Jan 1834, NC, 
d. 17 Sep 1908, at son's home, near Savage Crossing, Nansemond Co., 
interred in Bethlehem Christian Church Cemetery (Lot 135*), 18 Sep 1908, 
"Christian Sun" (Greensboro, NC), Vol. "LX" [LXI], No. 46, 
   Wed., Nov. 11, 1908 (1st ed.), p. 16; image at: 
   https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn93062839/1908-11-11/ed-1/seq-16/ 

*Additional information: 

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

Photos of his monument - added by Jake Dog - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #138491008. 

His wife's name appears in a variety of spellings.  Her obit 
   ("Christian Sun," Oct. 26, 1893, p. 11) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/s530s6ob.txt 


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file at: 
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