Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cutchins, Armstrong, 1929 

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ARMSTRONG CUTCHINS

ARMSTRONG CUTCHINS, POPULAR YOUNG MAN OF FRANKLIN, DEAD

   Armstrong Cutchins, youngest child of Mrs. Lelia Cutchins and the late 
Cornelius A. Cutchins of Franklin, died at Lakeview Hospital, Suffolk, Monday 
night, February 11, after a six weeks’ illness attended by complications 
following an appendicitis operation.  He was 22 years of age on December 22, 
1928, and was quite popular with the young people of the town, taking a 
leading part in athletic and other school activities during his high school 
days here.  He was a member of the graduating class of the Franklin High 
School in 1924 and was a member of its football team which had an unusual 
record among the smaller high schools of the State.  He attended V.P.I. for 
two years, and for several months had been connected with the DeLaval Cream 
Separator Company as its special representative in Southwest Virginia with 
headquarters at Pulaski, Va.

   He is survived by his mother; two brothers, Clifford A. Cutchins and Samuel 
B. Cutchins, and two sisters, Misses Zula and Fannie Cutchins, all of this 
town, besides a large and prominent family connection.

   Funeral services were held from his late home in North High Street 
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock in the presence of a large assembly of 
friends, Rev. R.D. Stephenson, pastor of the Franklin Baptist Church where 
Armstrong had been a member since young boyhood, conducting the service. 
Assisting in the service were two former pastors, Rev. J.L. McCutcheon of 
Modest Town, Va., and Dr. M.A. MacLean of Lynchburg, and Rev. James S. Watt, 
rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, who made a beautifully appropriate talk 
on the life of this young man.  Ernest K. Brinkley, J. Edgar Weede, Mrs. H.G. 
Cobb and Mrs. F.E. Howell sang "Safe in the Army of Jesus" and "Nearer My God 
to Thee" and interment was made in the family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery. 
The body bearers were: E.A. deBordenave, Jr., Gordon Edwards of Washington, 
R.M. Bryant, Jr., Cecil Vaughan, III, H.L. Richards of Culpepper, Dr. J.C. 
Rawls, Milton Bell and Adolph Cutchin.

   Relatives and friends from out of town who were here for the funeral 
included: Mrs. John S. Armstrong of Baltimore, Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Richards, 
Mrs. D.W. Kelley and Miss Gertrude Armstong of Culpepper, Mrs. J.R.L. Johnson, 
John Lee and Bruce Johnson and Miss Helen Johnson of Williamsburg; Mr. and 
Mrs. J.C. Webb, Mrs. C.R. Starkey, Mrs. Moses Joyner, Miss Katrine Williams, 
Mrs. Irene Stroud, Mrs. Burt Hines of Suffolk; Mr. and Mrs. E.J. Robertson, 
Robert Robertson and Miss Roxie Robertson, James Morel, Mrs. Hurley Daughtrey, 
Miss Mabel Rawls and Miss Sallie Johnson of Norfolk; Mrs. D.D. Wells and W.C. 
Davidson of Richmond, Mrs. J.W. Hodges of Roanoke, Miss Lavita MacLean of 
Lynchburg, Mr. and Mrs. William Darden, Miss Louise Cutchin and J. Oliver 
Cutchin, Jr. of Holland, Miss Mary Rhea and Miss Cecilia Bell of Windsor, 
N.C., W.D. McCauley of Harrisonburg and A.D. Stroud of Portsmouth.


Armstrong CUTCHINS, DeLaval representative, 
d. 11 Feb 1929, Suffolk, age 22, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 29*), Franklin, 
   13 Feb 1929, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 15, 1929, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 1, 1930) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c325l2ob.txt 


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