Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitehead, Edgar F., 1900 

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NEWS FROM SUFFOLK AND OTHER PARTS OF VIRGINIA 
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              OUR SUFFOLK LETTER. 
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Old Confederate Passes To His Reward. 
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Was A Member Of The 16th Virginia Infantry During Civil War - 
   Died At An Old Age - Electoral Board Appoints Judges. 
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  Suffolk, Va., May 12.- Mr. Edgar F. (Tim) Whitehead died at 5:45 o'clock 
this afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. Margaret Prentis, aged about 
63 years.  He had been ill several weeks.  The funeral will take place at 
5 o'clock Sunday afternoon from St. Paul's P. E. Church.  The Tom Smith Camp, 
of which the deceased was a member, will meet at 4:15 o'clock to attend the 
obsequies. 

  The deceased was a brother of Mrs. Prentis and Miss Kate Whitehead, and an 
uncle of Judge R. R. Prentis, Miss Susie Prentis and Mrs. N. Beamon, of 
Norfolk. 

  During the civil was the deceased was a member of Company A, Sixteenth 
Virginia Infantry, Weisinger's Brigade, Mahone's division.  He was slightly 
wounded at Gettysburg. 

  This is the seventh member of the Tom Smith Camp who has died since 
Christmas. 

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        BURIED SUNDAY. 

  The late Edgar F. Whitehead was buried Sunday afternoon.  The Tom Smith Camp 
of Confederate Veterans attended in a body.  Rev. J. B. Dunn, rector of St. 
Paul's P. E. church, conducted the services. 


Edgar Francis "Tim" WHITEHEAD, Confederate veteran, 
d. 12 May 1900, at sister's home, Suffolk, age circa 63, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block D, Lot 33*), Suffolk, 13 May 1900, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Sun., May 13, 1900, p. 14, col. 2; 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Tues., May 15, 1900, p. 8, col. 2 

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

His sisters are buried in the same lot.  Cedar Hill list for PRENTIS: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 

Their father, Elliott WHITEHEAD (1802-1837), his bro Edgar (1802-1829), and 
   presumably Tim's maternal grandfather, Owen FLYNN (1769 Ireland-1822), 
   are buried in the WHITEHEAD-FLYNN family cemetery, on Hosier Rd. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-61), 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 

A sketch of his life and military service is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/military/civilwar/cw_vets.txt 


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File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/w330e2ob.txt