Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brooks, Braxton A. Jr., 1934 

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BRAXTON ARTHUR BROOKS

DEATH OF BRAXTON BROOKS

Braxton A. Brooks, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Brooks, died Tuesday night after 
an illness of only a few days, following an attack of pneumonia.  Braxton, who 
was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks, was eleven years of age and a fifth 
grade pupil in the Franklin Grammar School.  He is survived by his parents; a 
brother, Leland Brooks; a sister, Miss Dorothy Brooks, a student at the 
Eastern Carolina Teachers College at Greenville, and an uncle, Leland 
Fleetwood, of Franklin.

Braxton was a young boy of very bright mind and straightforward character, and 
numbered many friends among his acquaintances at school and in his 
neighborhood.  The funeral services were conducted at the grave in Poplar 
Spring Cemetery Wednesday afternoon at 4:30, by Rev. R. D. Stephenson, pastor 
of Franklin Baptist Church, of which Braxton was a faithful attendant.  The 
active pallbearers were: W. H. Norfleet, E. M. Bryant, T. H. Canady, W. O. 
Bogart, Jonah Soble and J. O. H. Daughtery.  Honorary pallbearers were: Jack 
Norfleet, Thomas Campbell, Marvin Lee Bryant and James and Robert Beale.  The 
funeral was largely attended a number of Grammar School pupils being present. 
The sympathy of the entire town and community goes out to the bereaved parents 
in the heavy loss they have sustained.


Braxton Arthur BROOKS, Jr., son of Braxton A. & T. Ruth (FLEETWOOD) BROOKS, 
d. 6 Mar 1934, age 11, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 71*), Franklin, 
   7 Mar 1934, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 9, 1934, p. 4  

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," July 14, 1969, p. 2) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b620r3ob.txt 


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