Southampton-Chesterfield County-Petersburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bailey, Benjamin E., 1960 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ BENJAMIN EASON BAILEY PETERSBURG - Benjamin Eason Bailey, 62, of Ettrick died Monday at a Petersburg hospital. Mr. Bailey was a machine operator for Litmus Optical Company. He was a former resident of Southampton County before moving to Petersburg. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Susie Bailey; five sons, William D. Bailey of Petersburg, Benjamin H. Bailey of Hopewell, and Larry C., Vernard E. and David L. Bailey of Ettrick; two daughters, Mrs. John R. Sawyer and Miss Estelle Marie Bailey of Ettrick; two brothers, Ralph A. Bailey of Gaston, N.C., and Charles E. Bailey of Chicago; five sisters, Mrs. Roy Ferguson of Newsoms, Mrs. Ray Britt of Petersubrg, Mrs. J.O. Harrell of Poquoson, Mrs. Clifton Overby of Drewryville, Mrs. Raymond Mark of Fairbanks, Alaska, and a stepson, Lewis A. Potts of Ettrick. A funeral service was held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at T. Leonard Wells Funeral Home, with burial in Blandford Cemetery. [Benjamin Eason BAILEY, of Ettrick, machine operator for Litmus Optical Co., formerly of Southampton Co., d. 11 Jan 1960, Petersburg, age 62, interred in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, 13 Jan 1960, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 11, 1960, p. 5] Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b400b8ob.txt