Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Applewhite, Ashton E., 1952 

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ASHTON EUGENE APPLEWHITE

    Ashton Eugene Applewhite, 75, a life long resident of this county, died in 
Louse Obici Memorial Hospital, Suffolk, on Sunday night, November 23, after an 
illness of several weeks.

   The deceased was a son of the late Albert Moore and Mrs. Laura Saunders 
Applewhite of the county, and was a member of the Courtland Methodist church, 
in which he served as a steward for many years.

   Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Martha Vann Applewhite; four daughters, Miss 
Laura Applewhite of Courtland, Mrs. S.M. Edwards of Conway, N.C., Mrs. W.H. 
Lawson of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mrs. H.G. Presson of Suffolk; three sons, Emmett 
M. Applewhite, Ashton Eugene Applewhite, Jr., and Lloyd Allen Applewhite, all 
of Courtland ; three sisters, Mrs. Lucy Moore Vaughan, Mrs. C.W. Dickens and 
Mrs. Ludie Whitehead, all of Courtland; one brother, B.R. Applewhite, also of 
Courtland; and several grandchildren.

   Funeral services were held in the chapel of W.J.M. Holland and Sons on 
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. Otis L. Gilliam, pastor of the deceased 
officiated, assisted by Rev. L.M. Kanipe, pastor of the Courtland Baptist 
Church.

   Interment was in the Courtland Cemetery, the pallbearers being Claude 
Applewhite, T.B. Bell, J. Letcher Eley, Frank Marks, Emmett Vaughan, Roland 
Vaughan, Thomas Vaughan and Arthur Whitehead.


Ashton Eugene APPLEWHITE, 
life-long resident of Southampton Co., d. 23 Nov 1952, Suffolk, age 75, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section II, Plot 37*), Courtland, 25 Nov 1952, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

His widow's (donated, 1963) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/a143m3ob.txt 


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