Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Grigsby, Hugh Blair April 28, 1881
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Norfolk Virginian May 1, 1881

GRIGSBY - At his residence, "Edgehill," Charlotte County, Va., on Thursday 
morning, April 28th, 1881, HUGH BLAIR GRIGSBY, aged 74 years.
The funeral will take place from the First Presbyterian Church, in this 
city, THIS (Sunday) AFTERNOON,1st inst., at 5 o'clock.  His friends and 
acquaintances and those of John B. Whitehead, are respectfully invited to 
attend.
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On Saturday evening last the remains of the Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, of 
whose recent death at his estate of "Edgehill," Charlotte County, mention 
has been made in our columns, were brought to Norfolk, and the funeral took 
place at 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon from the First Presbyterian Church, a 
very large congregation having assembled to do honor by their attendance to 
the memory of the illustrious dead. The services at the church were 
conducted by the Rev. Dr. Geo D. Armstrong, the pastor.  The remains were 
deposited in Elmwood Cemetery, the following gentlemen acting as 
pallbearers:  Dr. Charles G. Barney and Geo. A. Barksdale, Esq., of 
Richmond; Messrs. Charles Reid, C.W. Newton, Richard Dickson, Captain James 
Barron Hope, Major Edmund Bradford, W.B. Galt, Captain B.P. Loyall and 
General Richard L. Page.

Norfolk Virginian May 3, 1881

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Elmwood

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