Nansemond-Isle of Wight-Chesterfield County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wilkinson, William S., 1942 

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W. S. Wilkinson Buried Tuesday 

  William Samuel Wilkinson, 61, died Sunday night at his home in Windsor, 
after an illness of four weeks.  Mr Wilkinson was the son of Benjamin II and 
Mary Ella Gill Wilkinson, native of Chesterfield County, but for many years 
resident of Isle of Wight County.  Surviving him are his wife Mrs. Opher 
Bailey Wilkinson; a son, William Bailey Wilkinson; a daughter, Miss Opher 
Elizabeth Wilkinson, who is a student at Mary Washington College; a sister, 
Mrs. Blanche Ivey, of Ettrick his stepmother, Mrs. Sudie Johnson Wilkinson, 
of Colonial Heights; a stepbrother. Horace Johnson, of Petersburg; a niece, 
Mrs. Robert Clark, of Chester, and several relatives in Isle of Wight and 
Chesterfield Counties. 

  Funeral services were conducted at the home in Windsor Tuesday afternoon at 
4:36 o'clock by the Rev. T. Fred Wright, pastor of the Windsor Christian 
Church and the Rev. Ernest Rawlings of the Windsor Methodist Church.  Burial 
was in Mount Carmel Church Cemetery in Isle of Wight County. 

  Active pallbearers were Shirley T. Holland, Eldon Fulgham, Dr. F.I. Steele, 
W.H. Johnson, J.W. Jenkins, W.T. Joyner, Emory Eley and A.S. Roberts 


William Samuel WILKINSON, former IoW.Co. deputy sheriff, 
Chesterfield Co. native, d. 17 May 1942, at home, Windsor, age 61, 
interred in Mt.Carmel Christian Church Cemetery*, Suffolk, 19 May 1942*, 
marked in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 24, No. 8, May 21, 1942, p. 7, col. 6 

*Additional information: 

His D.Cert. (11611 {Windsor #5}) also gives buried in Mt. Carmel, 
   but gives 17 May 1942. 

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

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 27, 1964, I-7) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/w425o1ob.txt 


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