Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bradshaw, Edwin, 1916 

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EDWIN BRADSHAW 

EDWIN BRADSHAW DIES IN SOUTHAMPTON 

Was Oldest Man In His County and Spent Active Life 

  Suffolk, Va., March 4 - The oldest man in Southampton County is dead.  He 
was Edwin Bradshaw, and he was 94 years old. 

  The deceased was not only the oldest citizen of Southampton, but the oldest 
Mason in the county.  He was a charter member of the Berlin lodge, and when in 
the lapse years, that lodge failed, he transferred his membership to the lodge 
at Ivor. 

  The funeral services were held today at his home at Vicksville, Southampton 
County, and the interment was made with Masonic honors. 

  Mr. Bradshaw was born in Southampton in 1822, and is survived by three sons, 
Charles Bradshaw, A.G. Bradshaw and R.M. Bradshaw. 

  Mr. Bradshaw remembered the Nat Turner insurrection, the Mexican war, and 
had seen almost every kind of modern invention and convenience come into use. 
He retained his vigor and strength of mind and body up to the last year of his 
life, and was a constant attendant on the Circuit Court of his county. 


Edwin BRADSHAW, retired farmer, Confederate veteran, 
b. 25 Apr 1822, Southampton Co., d. 3 Mar 1916, at home, Southampton Co., 
interred in the BRADSHAW family cemetery*, Unity Rd., 4 Mar 1916, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Sun., Mar. 5, 1916 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (MV-VIII-32): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 

No Find a Grave Memorial 

D.Cert. 8188 (Jerusalem #5) 

He enlisted in Co. I, 53rd VA Infantry 22 Apr 1861 as a private.  He was 
   WIA three times and promoted from corporal to commisary sergeant, and 
   surrendered with LEE at Appomattox C.H. 


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

file at: 
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