Southampton County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Barrett, Benjamin I., 1949 

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BENJAMIN ISAAC BARRETT 

  Benjamin Isaac Barrett, 62, of 3607 Brighton Street, who died at 10 o'clock 
Friday night in a Portsmouth hospital, will be buried this afternoon in Olive 
Branch Cemetery.  Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock at the 
Snellings Funeral Home.  Barrett was taken to the hospital Wednesday 
afternoon, police reported, after he was found in his home with a bullet 
wound in his right temple.


Benjamin Isaac BARRETT, of Portsmouth, Southern R.R. carman, 
b. 13 May 1886, Southampton Co., suicide 15 Apr 1949, Portsmouth, 
interred in Olive Branch Cemetery*, Portsmouth, 17 Apr 1949, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Sun., Apr. 17, 1949

*Portsmouth Public Library, Olive Branch Cemetery list: 
   https://www.portsmouthpubliclibrary.org/DocumentCenter/View/161/A---B-PDF 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 7698 (Portsmouth #193). 

His parents are buried in Sycamore Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 2, Plot 17). 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-34): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

His father's obits ("Virginian-Pilot," Oct. 19 & 20, 1928) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b630g3ob.txt 


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