Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Coggin, John E., 1945 

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JOHN ELDRIDGE COGGIN

   Funeral services for John E. Coggin, formerly of Franklin, who died in 
Philadelphia this week will be conducted the afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the 
Holland Funeral Home.

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   John E. Coggin, a former Franklin resident, died in Philadelphia Tuesday, 
February 27, at 2:30 a.m.  He was the oldest son of the late S.B. Coggin and 
Mrs. Lula B. Coggin of Franklin and was 64 years of age.  He was a valued 
employee of the Camp Manufacturing Company here a number of years and left 
this town about 30 years ago to make his home in Philadelphia, where he lived 
continuously until his death.  Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Annie Darden 
Coggin, formerly of this town; three brothers, S.E. Coggin of Norfolk, William 
Coggin of Richmond and Rodney L. Coggin of Warsaw, Va., and one sister, Miss 
Annie Mae Coggin of Richmond.

   He was a consistent member of the Methodist Church throughout his life, and 
the burial services were conducted by an old friend of the family, the Rev. 
Henry E. Walhey of Philadelphia.  Services were conducted from the Holland 
Funeral Home here last Friday afternoon at 2:30, burial following in the 
family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The pallbearers were four nephews, 
Edward Coggin, U.S.N., J.E. Coggin, U.S.N., Shelley Harrell of the U.S. Air 
Force, and Lloyd A. Darden, and the following: Frank E. Howell, Leland P. 
Simmons, J. Linwood Edwards and J.P. King.


John Eldridge COGGIN, former Camp Manufacturing employee in Franklin, 
Wake Co., NC native, d. 27 Feb 1945, Philadelphia, PA, age 64, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 44A*), Franklin, 
   20 Jan 1945, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 2, 1945, p. 8; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 9, 1945, p. 1 

*His parents are bd. in Section 2, Plot 14. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 14, 1936, p. 5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c250l2ob.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 27, 1987, p. 10A) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c250a1ob.txt 


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