Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Applewhite, Joseph N., 1941 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JOSEPH NICHOLAS APPLEWHITE DR. J.N. APPLEWHITE PASSES AT AGE OF 74 Dr. Joseph Nicholas Applewhite, well-known and beloved physician, died at his home in Capron Monday. He was born in Southampton County near Capron November 6, 1866, the son of John E. and Margaret Louisa Applewhite. The early years of his life were spent on their farm in this county. Later he worked for Dr. Nicholson of Sebrell, to whose medical library he had access. Much of his spare time was spent in reading these books and in this manner he ambition to become a physician took root. When 19 years of age he entered King’s military school in Suffolk, after which he attended the Medical College of Virginia, where he received his degree in 1895. The remainder of his life was devoted to his profession, which he practiced successfully in the vicinity in which he was born and reared. He was a member of Applewhite’s Methodist Church, where for the past 14 years he had been a faithful and devoted superintendent with an almost unbroken record of perfect attendance. On April 27, 1916, he was married to Sue Dixie Williams of Sunbury, N.C. Their only child, Mary Louisa, died January 12, 1936, in her 19th year. He is survived by his wife; two nieces, Mrs. S.T. Whitfield and Mrs. E.C. Swain of Norfolk; three nephews, Reese and Nat Applewhite of Washington, and Robert Applewhite of Williamsburg, and a number of cousins. Funeral services were conducted at the home Tuesday afternoon at three o’clock by his pastor, the Rev. C.V. Morris. The Applewhite’s Methodist choir sang "Asleep in Jesus" and "In the Sweet Bye and Bye." The casket was covered with a pall of white carnations and fern. Active pallbearers were: Irving Baker, Peyton Smith, Burnett Johnson, Wallace Cole, L.R. Magee and Roland Vaughan. He was buried in the family cemetery near Capron. Dr. Joseph Nicholas APPLEWHITE, b. 6 Nov 1866, Southampton Co., d. 5 May 1941, interred in the family cemetery*, near Capron, 6 May 1941, donated obit, newspaper unknown *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-52): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Brad Whitehead, and Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/a143j1ob.txt