Southampton County-Danville City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cabell, Powhatan A., 1966 

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POWHATAN ALGERNON CABELL

   FRANKLIN - A graveside funeral service for Powhatan Algernon Cabell with 
Masonic rites, was conducted Monday at 3:30 p.m. at Poplar Spring Cemetery by 
the Rev. Ben W. Farley, pastor of the Franklin Presbyterian Church.  W.J.M. 
Holland & Sons Funeral Home was in charge.

   Education by private teachers, at Danville Military Institute and at 
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now V.P.I.) he was the last 
surviving Spanish-American War veteran in Southampton County or in Franklin. 
He was a charter member of Franklin Presbyterian Church and a member of Lodge 
No. 128, A.F. & A.M.

   Besides his wife, Mrs. Gertrude M. Cabell, he is survived by two daughters, 
Mrs. Virginia C. Tarter of Norfolk and Mrs. Mary C. Bridges of Franklin; by 
four sons, George C. Cabell, III, of Chesapeake, B.W. Cabell of Boykins, N.E. 
Cabell of Lakeland, Florida, and Judge R. Baird Cabell of Franklin; and by 
twelve grandchildren.

   Pallbearers were C.L. Cutchin, R.H. Allen, Grover Worrell, R.H. Steadham, 
Hunter Darden Sr., J. Vaughan Beale, W.T. Pace jr., and W.T. Inge.

   Cabell, 90, a retired salesman, died Saturday at 8 p.m. in a Richmond 
hospital.

   A native of Danville, he was the youngest and last surviving child of the 
late Col. George C. Cabell, Eighteenth Virginia Regiment, Picketts Brigade, 
Army of the Confederacy, and Mrs. Mary Harrison Baird Cabell of Danville.  He 
was a brother of the late Dr. B.W.S. Cabell of Hampton and the late Col. 
George C. Cabell Jr. of Norfolk.


Powhatan Algernon CABELL, retired salesman, Spanish-American War veteran, 
Danville native, d. 20 Aug 1966, Richmond, age 90, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section B, Plot 17*), Franklin, 
   22 Aug 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 25, 1966, p. 13 

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

His first wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 8, 1918, p. 1), with their 
marriage record appended, is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c140m1ob.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 24, 1981, p. 3A) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c140g1ob.txt 

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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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