Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Billups, Joseph L., 1959 

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JOSEPH LANG BILLUPS 

   FRANKLIN - Joseph Lang Billups, 78, died Friday afternoon, Jan. 9, at his 
home in the Black Creek community.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Mary Lee Luter Billups and the son of Joyner R. 
and Cornelia Rountree Billups.

   He had resided here for the past 15 years, having moved to the Black Creek 
community from North Carolina.

   Besides his wife, he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Aubrey Butler of 
Buckhorn, Va.; one son, Thornton Billups of Franklin; one granddaughter, 
Jacqueline Butler; one brother, I.A. Billups of Ivor; and one sister, Mrs. 
Delia Horne of Norfolk.

   Funeral services were conducted in the chapel of the W.J.M. Holland and 
Son Funeral Home Sunday at 2:30 p.m. by the Rev. Len B. Allen, pastor of 
Black Creek Baptist Church.  Burial was in the church cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Octie Beal, Earl Drewry, J.C. Beal, T.J. Blythe, C.C. 
Edwards, Charles Bulls, Roland Whitley and Linwood Bradshaw.


Joseph Lang BILLUPS, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 9 Jan 1959, at home, Black Creek, age 78, 
interred in Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery**, 11 Jan 1959, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 15, 1959, Sect. I, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Black Creek list (BC-3): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 7, 1960, I-4) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b412m1ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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