Southampton-Dinwiddie County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Banty, Joseph E., 1953 

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JOSEPH ELDRIDGE BANTY 

   Joseph Eldridge Banty, 26, of Carson, Dinwiddie County, son of William H. 
and Ada Mae Revelle Banty of Carson, died instantly Thursday night, July 30, 
in an automobile accident near Homeville, Sussex County. 

   He made his home with his uncle, R.L. Banty, of the Capron community, and 
at the time of the accident was on his way to a ball game at Stony Creek. 

   In addition to his parents he is survived by four brothers, John H. Banty 
Stony Creek, Benjamin and W.H. Banty, Jr., of Waverly, and James Banty, U. S. 
Army; and four sisters, Mrs. Georgia Mae Cabell of Akron, Ohio, Mrs. Virginia 
Grant Price of Petersburg, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lemmons and Miss Debbie Marie 
Banty of Carson.

   Funeral services for Mr. Banty were conducted in the chapel of W.J.M. 
Holland & Sons on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock by Rev. Marshall W. 
Anderson, pastor of the Boykins Methodist Church, and J.T. Cassell, pastor of 
the Capron Methodist Church. 

   Burial was in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins, the pallbearers being Henry 
Beville, Hubert Frye, David Gill, Milton E. Leath, Eugene C. Lennock, and 
Alvin Carlton Smelley. 


Joseph Eldridge BANTY, of Capron, 
Carson native, killed in auto accident 30 Jul 1953, near Homeville, age 26, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 170; unmarked*), Boykins, 
   2 Aug 1953, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 6, 1953 

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


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