Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burbage, Thomas I., 1969 

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THOMAS IRVIN BURBAGE 

   A funeral service for Thomas Irvin Burbage was conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday 
in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. N.J. McManus.  Burial was in 
Southampton Memorial Park.

   Pallbearers were Franklin Gray, Richard Gray, George Watson, Bruce Hill, 
Charles Warren, Sidney Simms, Ray Melton, Robert Daughtrey and Kelly Taylor.

   Burbage, 26, drowned at Cape Hatteras Saturday.

   A native of Como, N.C., he was a son of Mrs. Emma Ruth Atkinson of Windsor 
and Samuel T. Burbage, Como, N.C.

   A member of Buckhorn Baptist Church, Como, N.C.

   He was a foreman at Franklin Equipment Co.

   Besides his mother and father surviving is a sister, Mrs. Ann Gray of 
Franklin.


Thomas Irvin BURBAGE, Franklin Equipment Co. foreman, 
Como, NC native, drowned 16 Aug 1969, Cape Hatteras, age 26, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Devotion I, Plot 171*), 19 Aug 1969, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 21, 1969, Sect. II, p. 10 

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

His mother is also buried there, with her 4th husband - Christus I, Plot 56. 

His father & paternal grandparents are buried in Buckhorn Baptist Church 
   Cemetery, Como, NC. 

His great-grandparents Dr. & Mrs. Thomas I. BURBAGE are buried in 
   Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin - Annex 2, Plot 40. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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