Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bland, Samuel August 12, 1918
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Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark August 13, 1918 

Samuel Bland, 81 years old, one of the best known men of Berkley, died yesterday 
afternoon at 5:45 o'clock at his residence, 511 West Twenty-sixth street, after 
an illness of several months.
Mr. Bland served several years as councilman of Berkley when that place was 
first incorporated under a town charter.  He was a director at the time of his 
death of the Berkley Permanent and Chesapeake Building and Loan Associations and 
a senior elder of Armstrong Memorial Presbyterian Church.  He lived in Berkley 
37 years, coming here from Philadelphia, of which place he was a native.
He was a Confederate veteran and served through the Civil War as a member of the 
Washington artillery of New Orleans, but spent most of his time during the 
conflict in Virginia.  He was a son of the late Benjamin and Mrs. Frances 
Clements Bland of England.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret S. Bland, granddaughter, Miss 
Margaret Stewart Baldwin and grandson, Samuel Bland Stengle; two sisters, Mrs. 
Seldon North, Elkins Park, Pa., Mrs. George Quinn, Dallas, Texas.
The funeral services will be conducted at the funeral apartments of E. Lee Cox, 
402 Berkley avenue, Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and burial will be in the 
family lot in Magnolia Cemetery.
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The funeral of Samuel Bland was conducted at the apartments of E. Lee Cox, in 
Berkley avenue, yesterday afternoon by Rev. T.H. Dimmock, pastor of Armstrong 
Memorial Presbyterian Church, and was very largely attended.  The floral 
tributes were numerous and beautiful.
Burial was in the family lot in Magnolia Cemetery and the pallbearers were:  
George T. Tilley, Col. J.J. Ottley, Jesse J. Parkerson, C.L. Old, Dr. R.W. 
Sturgis, W.W. Robertson, George G. Martin and P.M. Pritchard, S.W. Lyons, Jr. 
John W. Nash.

Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark August 15, 1918 

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