Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blythe, Tempie, 1927 

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TEMPIE BLYTHE

   Miss Tempie Blythe died at her home in the Franklin community on September 
18, aged 85 years and five months.  She had been a member of Black Creek 
Baptist Church for 25 years and is survived by a large family connection and 
many friends.  She leaves two brothers, W.A. Blythe of Sedley and Richard 
Blythe of Franklin; a sister, Mrs. Georgianna Beaton of Norfolk, five half-
brothers, Gillis of Norfolk, Frank and Junius of Franklin, James of Courtland 
and Lafayette Blythe of Holland, and three half-sisters, Miss Rose Blythe, 
Mrs. W.H. Womble and Mrs. T.W. Blythe of Sedley, and about 60 nieces and 
nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted from her late home by her Pastor, Rev. R.P. 
Welch of Black Creek, and interment was made in the old family burying ground. 
The body bearers were: J.T. Womble, J.T. Councill, William Wester, James 
Joyner, J.G. Joyner, Lonnie, F.S., and T.W. Blythe.


Temperance "Tempie" BLYTHE, 
d. 18 Sep 1927, at home, Franklin, age 85, 
interred in the family cemetery*, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 30, 1927, p. 1 

*possibly buried with her bro Wm. Albert BLYTHE (c1843-1928), buried at the 
 BLYTHE home place on Sedley Rd (Rt. 641), about 2 miles south of Sedley. 
 Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-50): 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 


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