Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beaton, Edgar B., 1922 

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EDGAR BURROUGHS BEATON

   Edgar Burroughs Beaton, born August 7, 1846, and youngest son of the late 
Edward and Martha Cain Beaton, died Wednesday morning at 1 o’clock at his home 
in Boykins.  Mr. Beaton had been suffering for some time with severe heart 
trouble, having had an attack last week while visiting his daughter, Mrs. E.R. 
Turnbull of Lawrenceville, but recovered sufficiently to return him by auto 
last Monday, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. C.T. Beaton and family.  He was able 
to be up in his home until Tuesday night when he was again taken ill and lived 
only a few hours.

   He married Elizabeth F. Thomson, who preceded him to the grave several 
years ago.  Mr. Beaton was the oldest man in Boykins in point of residence.

   He was the founder of the local Masonic Lodge and a Past Master thereof; 
was a faithful communicant of the Episcopal Church and was postmaster here for 
eighteen years.

   The surviving member of his immediate family are one daughter Mrs. E.R. 
Turnbull, of Lawrenceville; two sons, C.T. and N.S. Beaton of Boykins; one 
sister, Mrs. E.H. Grizzard of Boykins and six grandchildren.

   Burial services were conducted by his Rector, Rev, Winfield Shiers, of St. 
Thomas Episcopal Church, and by the Masonic order.  The interment took place 
in the family burying ground and the beautiful and numerous floral tributes 
were a token of the love and esteem in which he was held by his loved ones and 
friends.

   The active pallbearers were: B.F. Britt, E.R. Bryant, O.W. Gray, Walter H. 
Britt, W.B. Sykes, J.M. Hill, W.H. Powell, A.S. Francis.

   Our loss of one so cheerful and hopeful in disposition, earnest and active 
in all his undertakings is keenly felt by the whole community and we extend to 
the family our heartfelt sympathy in their great bereavement.


Edgar Burroughs BEATON, 
b. 7 Aug 1846, Southampton Co., d. 28 Jun 1922, at home, Boykins, 
interred in family cemetery, near Boykins, 
later re-interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 15/221*), Boykins, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 30, 1922, p. 1 

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


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