Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beaman, Herbert W., 1959 

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HERBERT WHARTON BEAMAN 

HERBERT BEAMAN, 66, BURIED HERE TODAY 

   Herbert Wharton Beaman, age 66, well-known resident of Franklin, died 
early Tuesday morning in Raiford Memorial Hospital after a short illness.

   He is the husband of Mary Cobb Beaman, and the son of the late Walter 
Edward and Annis Powell Beaman, of Franklin.  A member of the Franklin 
Baptist church, and the Men’s Bruner Bible Class, he was a retired 
employee of the Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp., having been a sawyer for 
about thirty seven years.

   Surviving beside his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Ruby Beaman Bishop, 
Franklin, and one son, Walter Edward Beaman, of Newport News, and four 
grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Covington, Virginia Beach, Mrs. 
Vernon G. Harlin, Kinsale; and one brother, Robert Beaman, of Ocean View, 
also a number of nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were held from the Holland Funeral Chapel Thursday 
(today) at 2:30 p.m. by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, pastor, and the Rev. 
Donald Dunlap, assistant pastor of the Franklin Baptist Church, and Rev. 
T.W. Downing, pastor of Sycamore Baptist Church.  Burial was made in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers  were Frederick Williams, J.J. Bradshaw, Jr., W.B. 
Hastings, Rupert Tart, Conway Holland, S. Bailey Atwell, Russell Cotton 
and Lawless Cobb.


Herbert Wharton BEAMAN, of Franklin, retired Camp sawyer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 3 Feb 1959, Franklin, age 66, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Sect. B, Plot 13*), Franklin, 
   5 Feb 1959, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 5, 1959, Sect. II, p. 6 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 

The surname also appears as BEAMON; however, son Walter's monument, 
   pictured with his Find a Grave Memorial, #22840799, shows BEAMAN, 
   buried in Eastern Shore Chapel Cemetery, Virginia Beach. 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 20, 1972, B-2) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b550m1ob.txt 


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