Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cobb, George F., 1968 

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GEORGE FENTON COBB

FRANKLIN - A funeral service for George Fenton Cobb will be conducted Thursday 
at 3:30 pm in Sycamore Baptist Church by the Rev. Thomas E. Mabe.  Burial will 
be in Polar Spring Cemetery with W.J.M. Holland and sons Funeral Home in 
charge.  Pallbearers will be Theo Darden, John Bunch, Walter L. Young, Sr., 
Herman Eley, Dr. E.L. Irving, Elliot Cobb, Jimmie Daughtrey and Harold 
Atkinson. Cobb, 59, died Tuesday morning in Southampton Memorial Hospital 
after a brief illness.  A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of 
Mrs. Ethel Harcum Cobb and a son of James Percy and Mrs. Evie Gardner Cobb. 
He was a farmer and a member of Sycamore Baptist Church.  Besides his widow, 
surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Cobb Carr of Walters; two brothers, 
James Percy Cobb, Jr., of Richmond and Gardner E. Cobb of Franklin; four 
sisters, Mrs. John L. Eley, Jr., Mrs. Matthew Turner, and Mrs. Robert E. 
Johnson of Franklin and Mrs. William Pope of Norfolk and two grandsons.

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GEORGE FENTON COBB

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for George Fenton Cobb will be conducted 
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Sycamore Baptist Church by the Rev. Thomas E. Mabe. 
Burial will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery with W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral 
Home in charge.

   Pallbearers will be Theo Darden, John Bunch, Walter L. Young Sr., Herman 
Eley, Dr. E.L. Irving, Elliott Cobb, Jimmie Daughtrey and Harold Atkinson.

   Cobb, 59, died Tuesday morning in Southampton County, he was the husband 
of Mrs. Ethel Harcum Cobb and a son of James Percy and Mrs. Evie Gardner Cobb.

   He was a farmer and a member of Sycamore Baptist Church.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Cobb Carr of 
Walters; two brothers, James Percy Cobb Jr. of Richmond and Gardner E. Cobb of 
Franklin; four sisters, Mrs. John L. Eley Jr., Mrs. Matthew Turner, and Mrs. 
Robert E. Johnson of Franklin and Mrs. William Pope of Norfolk, and two 
grandsons.


George Fenton COBB, farmer, 
d. 16 Apr 1968, Southampton Co., age 59, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section B, Plot 92A*), Franklin, 
   18 Apr 1968, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Apr. 17, 1968; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 18, 1968, p. 7 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 


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