Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blythe, Bessie W., 1947 

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BESSIE WILLS BLYTHE

   Bessie Wills Blythe, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Blythe of 
this county, died suddenly Sunday morning of a heart attack at her home near 
Franklin.

   The little girl attended the Nottoway Chapel Methodist Sunday School and 
was a pupil in the Courtland grammar school.  Besides her parents, she is 
survived by three brothers, Willie Roy, D.C. and Emerson Blythe of the 
Courtland community.

   Funeral services were conducted from Nottoway Chapel on Monday afternoon at 
4:30 o’clock by Rev. Percy D. White of Courtland, followed by interment in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The pallbearers were Herman Blythe, J.G. Joyner, Jr., 
Herman Cobb, J.G. Cobb, Shelton Cobb and Dempsey Blythe.  Honorary pallbearers 
were friends of the family.


Bessie Wills BLYTHE, d. 14 Sep 1947, at home, near Franklin, age 9, 
daughter of Daniel & Bessie Mae (LOWE) BLYTHE of Southampton Co., 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 141*), Franklin, 
   15 Sep 1947, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 19, 1947, p. 16 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 


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