Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cobb, Walter H. Sr., 1954 

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WALTER HENRY COBB, SR.

   Walter Henry Cobb, Sr., 72, a farmer of the Sedley community died suddenly 
Friday afternoon December 24, while shopping in a Sedley store.  His death was 
due to a heart attack. 

   The deceased was the son of the late Walter Henry and Leathy Beale Cobb of 
this county.  He was a member of Grace Memorial Methodist Church, Sedley. 
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lorena Beale Cobb of Sedley; two sons, Robert 
Henry Cobb and Lawrence Burnley Cobb of Sedley; two daughters, Mrs. Randolph 
Fowler of Franklin and Mrs. Melvin Gwaltney of Smithfield; six grandchildren; 
two brothers, Tony R. Cobb of Franklin and Sam Cobb of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; 
and three sisters; Mrs. Hurley Edwards of Franklin, Mrs. Johnnie Joyner of 
Petersburg, and Mrs. Floyd Whitley of Sedley. 

   Services for Mr. Cobb were conducted in the chapel of W.J.M. Holland & Sons 
on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. C.A. McCormick, pastor of Grace 
Memorial Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. James W. Turner, pastor High 
Street Methodist.  Interment was in Poplar Spring Cemetery. 

   Pallbearers were August Bradshaw, H.H. Chappell, Kenneth Howell, Clarence 
Owen, J.D. Owen, Bernard Smith, Thomas Simms and Earl Wills. 


Walter Henry COBB (II), Sedley farmer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 24 Dec 1954, Sedley, age 72, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 100B*), Franklin, 
   26 Dec 1954, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 30, 1954, Sect. I, p. 3 

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

His widow's obit ("Smithfield Times," Mar. 5, 1975, p. B-4) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c100l3ob.txt 


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