Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Barrett, Leslie M., 1927 

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MALCOLM LESLIE* BARRETT

   Malcolm Leslie Barrett, son of R. C. Barrett and the late Mrs. Mary Estelle 
Barrett of Franklin, died at his home near Suffolk on the Franklin-Suffolk 
Highway Sunday afternoon after an illness of four years.  He was 37 years of 
age; was born in Franklin and had spent the greater part of his life here. 
He was a young man of many sterling qualities, a dutiful son, energetic and 
industrious and so long as health permitted active and useful in the home, his 
church, the Masonic order and the community generally.  He was a consistent 
member of the Franklin Baptist church and was Worshipful Master of Franklin 
Lodge No. 151, A.F. & A.M. for two terms, the members of this order conducting 
the impressive burial service of Masonry at the graveside here.

   Four years ago Mr. Barrett married Miss Ida Thigpen of Franklin who 
survives him with a little daughter, Ida Malcolm Barrett.  He is also survived 
by his father, R.C. Barrett of this town; two brothers, R.C. Barrett, Jr., of 
Suffolk and R. Sidley Barrett of Franklin; six sisters, Mrs. V.A. Brinkley, 
Mrs. L.C. Holland, and Mrs. S.P. Hill of Suffolk, and Mrs. Frank E. Howell, 
Miss Claudia Barrett and Mrs. Lavinia Rawls of Franklin, besides a large and 
prominent family connection and a host of friends.

   Funeral services were conducted at the family burial plot in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery here Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock by his Pastor, Rev. R.D. 
Stephenson, assisted by Dr. H.J. Goodwin and Dr. W.W. Staley of Suffolk.  The 
body bearers were Reginald Holland, F.E. Howell, Jr., Malcolm Howell, Bradford 
Bowden, W.O Bogart, Roger Beale, W.C. Jenkins and R.H. Jacobs.

   Honorary pallbearers were George Earnest, Jesse Weede, James L. Camp, Jr., 
Powell Eley, Herbert Beaman, W.H. Butler, W.H. Lankford, J.M. Johnson, J.A. 
Pretlow, Edgar Weede, G.L. Bell, F.A. Holladay, Hutson Councill, Rev. L.F. 
Paulette, Joe Bynum Gay, Henley Churn, W.T. Pace, J., Wayland Jones, Leland 
Fleetwood, Ryland Rose, Jake Soble, John Haslette, Harry Steinhardt, Ernest 
Evans, R.A. Pope, Robert Landford, Richard Rawls, Rob Howell, James Fowler, 
R.E.L. Watkins, C.J. Edwards, S.B. Savage, W.F. Adams, Charles Webb, David 
Prince, Dr. Burton J. Ray, J.J. Pace, Ryland Camp, John Camp, M.H. Moore, Dr. 
R.H. Cobb, Cr. A.P. Cutchin, Dr. O.R. Yates, W.B. Darden, Dr. W.H. Arthur, 
F.E. Howell, Franklin Edwards, E. Frank Story and Ernest Bowden.


Leslie Malcolm* BARRETT, 
b. Franklin, d. 11 Sep 1927, near Suffolk, age 37, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 41B*), Franklin, 
   14 Sep 1927, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 16, 1927, p. 1 

*tombstone reads Leslie Malcolm Barrett; mother's obit (q.v.) gives L.M. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 20, 1928, p. 7) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b630r10o.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," May 18, 1923, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b630m5ob.txt 


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