Southampton County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bryant, Richard B., 1929 

************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

RICHARD BARRETT BRYANT

   Richard Barrett Bryant, oldest son of the late Dr. James Fenton Bryant and 
Mrs. Gabrielle Barrett Bryant of this town, died at his home in Portsmouth, 
Sunday, October 19, as the result of a stroke of paralysis sustained ten weeks 
ago.  Mr. Bryant spent his boyhood in Franklin and attended the Virginia 
Military Institute and the College of William and Mary.  For some time he was 
in the drug business here with his father as J.F. Bryant and Son, and leaving 
Franklin in 1906 he was with the Southern Railway for several years.  For the 
last twelve years and up to the time of his death he had been with the 
Imperial Tobacco Company in Portsmouth.  He has a large and prominent family 
connection here and numbered a wide circle of friends.  A member of old 
Company "I" of this town, he served through the Spanish-American War as First 
Lieutenant of the Franklin Company, Fourth Regiment, Virginia Volunteers.

   Mr. Bryant is survived by his widow, Mrs. Bessie Snyder Bryant, and five 
sons, Herbert, James, Robert, William and Edward; one brother, J.F. Bryant, 
Jr., of this town and many other relatives here.

   Funeral services were conducted in Portsmouth Tuesday afternoon at 3 
o’clock from the home by Dr. Weston Bruner of Port Norfolk Baptist Church, Mr. 
Bryant’s pastor, assisted by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Franklin.  Interment 
was made in Olive Branch Cemetery, Portsmouth, and the body bearers were: J.W. 
Abbitt, John A. Moore, Eugene Colder, Sr., and C.A. Robertson of Portsmouth 
and Joe Bynum Gay, Claude J. Edwards, W.O. Bogart and W.O. Bristow of this 
town.  The Portsmouth Camp Spanish-American War Veterans attended in a body, 
and a firing squad of marines paid the soldier’s tribute over the grave.

   Among Franklin people who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. J.F. 
Bryant, Jr. and son, Joe Gay Bryant, W.O. Bristow and son, William, and 
daughter, Miss Virginia Bristow, Mrs. C.C. Vaughan, Sr. and Miss Margaret 
Bryant, Mrs. R.A. Pretlow, W.O. Bogart, Miss Claudia Barrett, Mr. and Mrs. 
Joe Bynum Gay and J.B. Gay, Jr., Miss Annie E. Gay, Mrs. B.L. Holt, Mrs. J.A. 
Jackson, Rev. R.D. Stephenson, Mrs. A.L. Gardner, W.H. Lankford, Mrs. P.D. 
Camp, Mrs. J.H. Holland, Jr., Claude J. Edwards, R.E.L. Watkins and W.J.M. 
Holland, Jr.


Richard Barrett BRYANT, businessman, Spanish-American War veteran, 
Franklin native, d. 19 Oct 1929, at home, Portsmouth, age 57, 
interred in Olive Branch Cemetery*, Portsmouth, 21 Oct 1929, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 25, 1929 

*Portsmouth Public Library, Olive Branch Cemetery list: 
   https://www.portsmouthpubliclibrary.org/DocumentCenter/View/161/A---B-PDF 

His parents & paternal are buried in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin - 
   Sect. 1, Plot 54; his maternal grandparents are in Sect. 2, Plot 40B. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 
   His maternal grandparents are in Sect. 2, Plot 40B: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b653r2ob.txt