Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blythe, Charles M., 1947 

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CHARLES MATTHEWS BLYTHE

CHARLES BLYTHE, STRICKEN WHILE ALONE IN TRUCK, IS KILLED WHEN CAR HITS TREE 

Truck Runs Off Road When Farmer, Father Of Twelve, Suffers Heart Attack 
Monday Evening; Funeral This Afternoon At Union Church.

   While riding alone in a Ford pick-up truck between Courtland and Franklin 
on Highway 58, en route to his home near Franklin, Charles Matthews Blythe, 
59-year-old Southampton County farmer was killed Monday evening about six 
o’clock when his vehicle ran off the road and crashed into a tree.

   Dr. T. Addison Morgan, county coroner, who investigated the accident, 
announced that the mishap was apparently caused by the accident victim’s 
suffering a heart attack.

   Mr. Blythe was a son of the late Archie and Keaton Beale Blythe of 
Southampton County and husband of Mrs. Sweetie Lee Blythe, who survives him. 
He was a member of Union Congregational Christian Church.

   In addition to his wife he is survived by three sons, Edgar, Charles Morris 
and Cary Hinson Blythe of Franklin; nine daughters, Mrs. Percy Harrison and 
Mrs. A.P. Richardson of Norfolk, Mrs. R.C. Wilson and Mrs. C.D. Graham of 
Portsmouth, Mrs. W.L. Bass of Courtland, and Mrs. G.C. Overby, Mrs. R.E. 
Hollowell and Misses Shirley and Doris Blythe of Franklin; a brother, Hunter 
Blythe of Franklin; two sisters, Mrs. J.G. Joyner and Miss Effie Blythe of 
Franklin; and sixteen grandchildren.

   Funeral services will be held this afternoon (Wednesday) at two o’clock at 
Union Christian Church, with the pastor, Rev. R.E. Brittle, officiating. 
Interment will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery.


Charles Matthews BLYTHE, Southampton Co. farmer, 
wrecked 20 Dec 1947, US Hwy. 58, between Courtland and Franklin, age 59, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 218*), Franklin, 
   30 Dec 1947, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 24, 1947, p. 1 

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


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