Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burgess, Walter J., 1971 

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WALTER JEFFERSON BURGESS 

   A funeral service for Walter Jefferson Burgess, 79, of Courtland was held 
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. 
Harold Lewis.

   Burial was in Riverside Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were James Dundlow, Howard Hancock Sr., Edward Morton, Lloyd 
Rountree, J. Braxton Holcombe, Hector W. Baker, Edwin D. Priggen and Edward 
H. Blythe Sr.

   A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Mrs. Maggie Cogsdale 
Burgess and a son of Jefferson D. and Mrs. Romine Joyner Burgess.

   He was a retired farmer and a member of Courtland Baptist Church and its 
Men's Bible Class.

   Besides his widow, surviving are two daughters, Mrs. James H. Lee Jr. and 
Miss Elsie Burgess, and a son, Claude C. Burgess, all of Courtland; a sister, 
Mrs. V.C. Lankford Sr., and a brothers, Clyde W. Burgess, both of Franklin; 
three grandsons; a granddaughter; and two great-grandchildren.


Walter Jefferson BURGESS, retired farmer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 27 Apr 1971, age 79, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section I, Plot 74*), Courtland, 29 Apr 1971, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 3, 1971, p. 5 

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

His mother and infant sister were killed in a buggy accident in 1896. 
   They are buried (unmarked) in a BURGESS family cem., on Country Club Rd. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 5 (V-32): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol5.txt 

His father remarried, and is buried with his second wife in a 
   BURGESS family cem., Checkerboard Corner. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-38): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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