Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Barrett, Robert E., 1930 

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ROBERT ERNEST BARRETT

   Robert Ernest Barrett, 47 years of age, died suddenly at his home in 
Franklin Wednesday morning.  He was the son of Mrs. Nannie L. Barrett and of 
the late Lucillus Barrett of Newsoms, this county, attending the Franklin 
Military Academy as a young man and following his education at his school 
going with Knight Drug Company, later the Parker Drug Company, where he had 
been employed for 16 years.  During the past four years he had been with the 
Virginian.

   Mr. Barrett and Miss Lillian Trice of St. Michael’s, Md., were married ten 
years ago, and besides his wife he is survived by their [children], Edith May, 
Ernestine and Robert Ernest Barrett, Jr.; by his mother, Mrs. Nannie L. 
Barrett; three brothers, Harry G. and Leroy Barrett of Newsoms and Lycurgus 
Barrett of Suffolk and three sisters, Mrs. T.E. Barrett of Norfolk, Mrs. J.A. 
Brown of Suffolk and Miss Margaret Barrett, who teaches in the Ivor High 
School, besides a large family connection in this county and a wide circle of 
friends.

   He was a member of High Street M.E. Church, Franklin, and of the Men’s 
Bible Class of that church. A gentleman in his conduct and dealings with his 
fellows; true in all of the manifold obligations of life; always courteous and 
accommodating in his business relations, he numbered many friends throughout 
the town and county and was highly esteemed by all who knew him.

   Funeral services were held from his late residence in Barrett Avenue, 
Franklin, yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, conducted by his Pastor, the 
Rev. Dr. Geo. H. Spooner assisted by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the Franklin 
Baptist Church, Rev. R. Harrison Marks of the Newsoms M.E. Church and Rev. 
J.A. Chapman of Norfolk, a former pastor of Mr. Barrett’s at High Street M.E. 
Church.  Interment was made in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the body bearers being: 
Geo. H. Parker, H.M Campbell, H.A. Barrett, L.D. Story, L.P. Simmons, J.H. 
Boyd, G.G. Smith and C.V. McGehee.  The honorary bearers were: C.C. Vaughan, 
3rd, Claude J. Edwards, J.D. Fowler, Wesley H. Beale, Walter H. Norfleet, R.A. 
Pretlow, B.T. Watkins, Dr. W.E. Snipes, Dr. W.H. Arthur, Franklin Edwards, J. 
Ryland Dunn, B.D. Barrett, J.V. Simmons, Dr. E.A. deBordenave, E.M. Bryant, 
C.A. Worrell, Edgar B. Jackson, Dr. J.B. Powell, J. Edgar Weede, G.A. Gardner, 
J.J. Pace, Jesse A. Weede, R.I. Beale, J.F. Sandin, J.R. Beaton, H.G. Cobb, 
C.E. Pond, J.P. King, S.W. Rawls, George Watkins, L.L. Beaton, B.A. Brooks, 
Harry Steinhardt, J.B. Gay and J.O. Haslett.


Robert Ernest BARRETT, druggist, 
Newsoms native, d. 8 Oct 1930, at home, Franklin, age 47, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 6*), Franklin, 
   9 Oct 1930, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 10, 1930 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 


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