Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bradshaw, Robert L., 1951 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ ROBERT LEE BRADSHAW Robert Lee Bradshaw, 40, a farmer of the Sedley community, was fatally injured early Wednesday night, May 30, in an automobile and truck accident on Route 35 near Homeville, Sussex County. Mrs. Bradshaw, who was riding with her husband, was seriously injured and is a patient in Raiford Memorial Hospital. Mr. Bradshaw was a life-long resident of this county. A member of the Black Creek Baptist Church, he was the son of Charles and Annie Lee Johnson Bradshaw of Sedley.* Besides his wife and parents he is survived by two daughters, Misses Gladys Louise and Ruby Bradshaw; three sons, Robert Linwood, Emerson, and Matthew Bradshaw; two sisters, Mrs. A.H. West of Portsmouth and Mrs. Charlie Cook of Franklin; and four brothers, Willie George, Edward and Junius Bradshaw of Franklin. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Black Creek Baptist Church with Rev. S.C. Lanning and Rev. W.B. Watson, a former pastor, officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery, the pallbearers being Ralph Berry, Junius Davis John Henry Drewry, McKinly Drewry, James [...*], Scottie Hill, Winfield Hill and Woodrow Johnson. Robert Lee BRADSHAW, Sedley farmer, life-long resident of Southampton Co., fatally injured in crash, 30 May 1951, near Homeville, Sussex Co., d. 31 May 1951, Franklin, age 40, interred in Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery*, 2 Jun 1951, marked in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 8, 1951 *Additional information: His parents are also buried at Black Creek. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Black Creek list (BC-4&6): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt A photo is attached to his Black Creek Find a Grave Mem., #126283239. His widow remarried, to Samuel B. VICK; they divorced 1978, Broward Co., FL. Robert & Doris are marked together in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley. SCHS Cemetery Project, Rosemont list (S-10): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt A photo of his marker is attached to his Rosemont Find a Grave Mem., #92674460; his photo is also attached. His mother's maiden name also appears as WILLIAMS. His father's birth name may have been WOMBLE- see notes appended to his obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 15, 1962, p. 6), posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b632c7ob.txt "The Tidewater News" was storied in the attic of the TN building for years before the LVA copied them. There is a line running through the print at the top and middle of many of the papers and it effected many of the obits. I've put elipses for the part that's missing. If it's obvious what's said, I've tried to fill it in. (bs) Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b632r3ob.txt