Southampton County-Richmond City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bryant, Robert M., 1931 

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ROBERT MURRAY BRYANT 

  Suffolk, July 13 - Funeral services for Robert Murray Bryant, prominent 
Southampton citizen, were held today at noon at his home, "Sleepy Hollow," 
and burial was made in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, at 4 o’clock.

  Active pallbearers were P.J. Creath, of Richmond; L.P. Roberts, Jr., and 
B.M. Trotter, of Norfolk; E.B. Williamson and R.H. Mann, of Petersburg; 
J.P. Smith, of Dunn, N.C.; Dr. J.H. Pridgen, of Waco, Texas; Edgar Jackson, 
of Franklin, and J.A. Jackson, Jr., of Grantsville, W.Va.

  Honorary pallbearers were W.K. Weaver, B.H. Ellington, E.A. Leake, E.H. 
Seldon, P.J. Greath, Jr., of Richmond; A.M. Raney, Freeman, W.Va.; L.M. 
Raney, La Crosse, Va.; R.A. Raney, Wytheville; R.A. Raney and E.G. Raney, 
of Smokey Ordinary; Murray Raney, of Wytheville; John F. Williamson, Newell 
Williamson, and S.H. Short, of Petersburg; J.A. Jackson, Sr., L.A. Gay, J.B. 
Gay, J.F. Bryant, Jr., C.C. Vaughan, W.T. Pace, Dr. E.A. De Bordebave, John 
C. Parker, W.O. Bristow, and B.L. Holt, of Franklin; L.H. Raney, G.A. Raney, 
W.A. Trotter and W.G. Jackson, Lawrenceville.

  Mr. Bryant was born in Southampton County in 1870 and was the son of the 
late Captain James D. Bryant and Mrs. Mary Louise Bryant.

  Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Agnes Raney Bryant and Miss Agnes Louise 
Bryant, all of Richmond; two sisters, Mrs. J.A. Jackson and Miss Antoinette 
Bryant, of Franklin, and a number of nieces and nephews.

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ROBERT MURRAY BRYANT 

   Robert Murray Bryant, who was long a prominent figure in the lumber 
industry throughout Virginia and the Carolinas, died early Sunday morning in a 
Richmond hospital after an illness of a few days.

   Mr. Bryant was born in Southampton County on August 4, 1870.  He was the 
son of the late Captain James DeBerry Bryant and Mrs. Mary Louise (Nutt) 
Bryant, and a half-brother of the late Dr. James Fenton Bryant, the late N. 
Bynum Bryant, with whom he was long associated in the lumber business, and the 
late Mrs. Littleton A. Gay.  At the time of his death he was vice president of 
the Petersburg Shook and Lumber Co., and of Joseph P. Smith, Inc., of Dunn, 
N.C.  He was a member of Centenary M.E. Church, Richmond.

   The deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Agnes Raney Bryant; three 
children, Robert Murray Bryant, Jr., George Raney Bryant and Miss Agnes Louise 
Bryant, all of Richmond; two sisters, Mrs. J.A. Jackson and Miss Antoinette M. 
Bryant of Franklin; and a number of nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted at "Sleepy Hollow," the Bryant home near 
Richmond Monday at noon by Dr. George E. Booker, pastor of Centenary M.E. 
Church and a life-long friend of the deceased.  Interment was in the family 
plot at Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock, Dr. 
Booker and Dr. George H. Spooner of the High Street M.E. Church, officiating.

   The active pallbearers were: P.I. Creath of Richmond; L.P. Roberts, Jr. and 
B.M. Trotter of Norfolk; E.B. Williamson and R.H. Mann of Petersburg; J.P. 
Smith of Dunn, N.C.; Dr. J.H. Pridgen of Waco, Texas; Edward G. Raney of 
Smokey Ordinary and Edgar B. Jackson of Franklin.

   The honorary pallbearers were: W.K. Weaver, B.H. Ellington, E.A. Leake, 
E.H. Selden, P.I. Creath, Jr. and F. B. Walker of Richmond; A.M. Raney of 
Freeman; L.M. Raney of LaCrosse; R.A. Raney of Smoky Ordinary; Murray B. Raney 
of Wytheville; John T. Williamson, Newell Williamson, and S.H. Short of 
Petersburg; J.H. Trotter of Norfolk; L.H. Raney, G.A. Raney, W.A. Trotter and 
W.G. Jackson of Lawrenceville; E.R. Bryant of Boykins; Colonel E.E. Goodwyn of 
Emporia; J.A. Jackson, Jr. of Grantsville, W.Va.; and J.A. Jackson, L.A. Gay, 
J.B. Gay, J.F. Bryant, Jr., Cecil Vaughan, B.L. Holt, J.E. Moyler, W.T. Pace, 
Dr. E.A. de Bordenave, John C. Parker, J. Edgar Weede, W.O. Bristow and R.E.L. 
Watkins of Franklin.


Robert Murray BRYANT (Sr.), of "Sleepy Hollow," lumber industrialist, 
b. 4 Aug 1870, Southampton Co., d. 12 Jul 1931, Richmond, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 67/68*), Franklin, 
   17 Jul 1931, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), July 14, 1931, p. 13; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 17, 1931, p. 1 

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

His widow's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Dec. 21, 1971, p. 26) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w656a1ob.txt 

His parents are buried in Section 1, Plot 54: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 21, 1913) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b653m1ob.txt 


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