Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bryant, Vernon M., 1957 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ VERNON MALLORY BRYANT VERNON M. BRYANT Vernon Mallory Bryant, 60, of Boykins died at Raiford Memorial Hospital on Saturday night, May 25, after a long illness. Mr. Bryant, a native of Northampton County, N.C., was the husband of Mrs. Bettie Sue Bryant of Boykins, now of Franklin, the son of Mrs. Maggie Harrell Bryant of Capron and the late Johnnie Bryant. He was a member of the Meherrin Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, N.C.. In addition to his wife and mother, he is survived by three sons, Floyd Bryant of Jackson, N.C., Greeley Bryant of Roanoke Rapids, N.C. and Raiford Bryant of Woodland, N.C.; a daughter, Mrs. Charles O. Price of Roanoke Rapids; four brothers, Willie Bryant of Capron, Roy Bryant of Franklin, Luther Bryant of Gaston, N.C. and Ernest Bryant of Murfreesboro; 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services were conducted Monday at 3 p.m. at the Boykins Baptist Church by Rev. L.F. Smith, pastor of the Newsoms Baptist Church, and Rev. William Ferguson, pastor of the Boykins Methodist Church. Burial was in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins. Active pallbearers were Claude Drake, Jr., George T. Drake, Lonnie Gray, Otis Gray, Walter Gray and Dick Poole. Vernon Mallory BRYANT, of Boykins, Northampton Co., NC native, d. 25 May 1957, Franklin, age 60, interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 201; unmarked*), Boykins, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 30, 1957 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Beechwood list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.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/b653v2ob.txt