Petersburg City-Chesterfield County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sykes, Whirl, 1876 

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PETERSBURG. 

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA AND QUEEN VICTORIA - 
   AN INCIDENT OF BRAXTON BRAGG'S CAMPAIGN IN MEXICO - 
   BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN PETERSBURG - 
   DEATH OF A WORTHY COLORED MAN - 
   CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE YELLOW-FEVER SUFFERERS - 
   INSTALLATION OF A PASTOR - MORE FLAG-RAISING - 
   DE MORTIE STILL IN THE FIELD - 
   SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS FOR SPEAKING, &C. 
[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] 
                                        SEPTEMBR 29, 1876. 
[...] 

  The status of the colored Baptist church in Blandford is somewhat beclouded. 
At the recent session of the Hasadiah Baptist Association, held in 
Southampton, a committee was appointed to investigate its spiritual condition 
and report thereon. 

  Whirl Sykes, one of the oldest as well as most respectable of our colored 
citizens, died last evening at the advanced age of eighty-three years.  He was 
formerly a slave of Major J. Arthur Johnston, at whose house he died, and ever 
since the war has been a true and consistent Conservative.  His remains were 
to-day sent to the old family burying-ground at Spring Grove, in Chesterfield 
county, for interment. 
[...] 



Whirl SYKES, former of slave of Jno. Arthur JOHNSTON, 
d. 28 Sep 1876, at former's master's home, Petersburg, age 83, 
interred in the family cemetery, Petersburg, Spring Grove, Chesterfield Co., 
"The (Richmond, VA) Daily Dispatch," Sat., Sep. 30, 1876, p. 3, col. 1 

JOHNSTON is buried in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg. 
   (Find a Grave Mem. #49582481) 


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