Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Babb, James A., 1937 

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS IN AND AROUND SEBRELL 
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James Ashton Babb 

  James Ashton Babb, aged 49 years, died at his home in Sebrell last night 
after a two weeks' illness of pneumonia.  Surviving are his wife, one 
daughter, Miss Marie Babb; three sons, Garland, Joe Bynum and Allison, all 
of Sebrell; his mother, Mrs. Maggie Babb; six brothers, Tom, John, Jack, 
George and Joe Babb of Sebrell and community, and Walter Babb of Franklin; 
two sisters, Mrs. G.B. Vaughan of Sebrell and Mrs. Ida Bradshaw of Los 
Angeles, Cal. 

  He was a member of Sebrell M.E. Church.  Funeral services were held at the 
grave in Sebrell cemetery Thursday afternoon at 2:30 by Rev. A.W. Roten.  The 
pallbearers were Tom, John, Walter, George, Jack and Joe Babb. 


James Ashton "Buddy" BABB, farmer, 
b. 1 Aug 1888, Southampton Co., d. 28 Dec 1937*, at home, Sebrell, 
interred in the SEBRELL-SIMMONS Cemetery (Plot 8*), Sebrell, 29 Dec 1937, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 32, No. 13, Fri., Jan. 7, 1938, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-3): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by dixielad - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #56939614, which gives James Aston; it shows 
   d. 26 Dec 1937.  Find a Grave calls it the Barn Tavern Cemetery. 

His parents, John Thomas & Margaret "Maggie" (DOYLE) BABB, are buried in the 
   same plot. 

D.Cert. 30748 (Blackwater #14) d. 28 [altered] Dec 1937, but treated by Dr. 
   W.T. McLEMORE 25-29 Dec. 

His widow Lula Belle (VICK) BABB (1888 - 1960) is buried with her parents in 
   Hollywood Cemetery, Newsoms.  SCHS Cemetery Project, Hollywood list (N-1): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

Her obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 21, 1960, p. 5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b100l1ob.txt 


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