Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blythe, Mitchell C., 1947 

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MITCHELL CHARLES BLYTHE

   Mitchell Charles Blythe, 76, prosperous retired farmer residing near 
Courtland, died Sunday morning in Raiford Memorial Hospital.  He had been in 
failing health for many months.

   "Mr. Mitchell," as he was known to his many friends, was a son of the late 
Robert Henry* and Rebecca Scott Blythe of this county, and a member of Bethel 
Friends Meeting.

   Surviving him are a brother, Jesse M. Blythe, with whom he made his home; 
three sisters, Mrs. Jennie S. Joyner and Miss Nellie J. Blythe of Courtland 
and Mrs. Lillian E. Holland of Suffolk; four nieces, Mrs. Evelyn Collier and 
Mrs. Jennie B. Hornok of Courtland, and Mrs. Rebecca Bradshaw and Miss Louise 
Copeland of Suffolk; and a great-niece, Miss Evelyn June Collier of Courtland.

   Funeral services for Mr. Blythe were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 
o’clock in the Holland Funeral Home by his pastor, Rev. James R. Stein. 
Interment followed in Poplar Spring Cemetery, with Hersey Scott, Hunter 
Blythe, Exum N. White, Hunter Scott, J. Edward Moyler, Vance W. Vaughan, R.R. 
Lankford and Ashby Blythe as active pallbearers.


Mitchell Charles BLYTHE, retired farmer residing near Courtland, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 2 Nov 1947, Franklin, age 76, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 230**), Franklin, 
   4 Nov 1947, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 7, 1947, p. 10 

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

*The cemetery list gives his father's middle initial as T. (not H.), but many 
   of the stones have been replaced and may have errors. 
   His parents are buried in the BLYTHE family cemetery, off Bethel Rd. 
   A transcription, contributed to the SCHS Cemetery Project and USGenWeb 
   Archives by Chester Blythe, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blythe.txt 
   An annotated version of the list is included in the SCHS Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-23), posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

His parents' 1868 marriage record is appended to the obituary of his sister 
   Nellie Jane BLYTHE, posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b430n2ob.txt 
 

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

file at: 
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