Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Barney, Arthur L., 1955 

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ARTHUR LEE* BARNEY 

   Funeral services for Arthur Lee Barney, 71, of New York City were conducted 
at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery last Saturday morning at 11 o’clock by 
Rev. Richard H.L. Vanaman, rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church.

   The pallbearers were Franklin Edwards, Edgar Jackson, Harvey L. Lindsay of 
Norfolk, J. Fenton Matthews, Linwood B. Norfleet, John C. Parker, H. Wayland 
Stephenson and Dr. Beaman Story.

   Mr. Barney, former vice president, treasurer and director of Tiffany & Co., 
New York jewelers, died at the residence, 430 E. 57th St., New York City, on 
Tuesday afternoon, November 8, at 5:15 o’clock.  A native of Providence, R.I., 
he had been connected with Tiffany’s since 1906, retiring only last spring. 
He had suffered a stroke shortly before his death.

   Surviving is his wife, the former Miss Elizabeth Darden, niece of George O. 
Watkins and granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Darden J. Watkins of 
Franklin.  As a girl Mrs. Barney was a frequent visitor of her grandmother on 
N. High Street, Franklin.

   The remains were accompanied to Franklin by Mrs. Barney and her brother, 
Lawrence* E. Darden of New York City.


Arthur L. BARNEY, retired Tiffany & Co. vice president, treasurer & director, 
Providence, RI native, d. 8 Nov 1955, New York City, NY, age 71, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 49**), Franklin, 
   12 Nov 1955, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 17, 1955, Sect. II, p. 2 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

*His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 27, 1980, p. 9A), which gives 
   his middle name as "Leroy" (rather than Lee") is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b650e1ob.txt 
   Her brother's name should be spelled "Laurence." 


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