Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cutchin, Braxton M., 1948 

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BRAXTON MURRAY CUTCHIN 

B.M. CUTCHIN’S DEATH ON FEB. 4 WIDELY MOURNED - 
   FARMER AND CHURCHMAN DIES WEDNESDAY NIGHT; 
   HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH SEVERAL YEARS. 

   Braxton Murray Cutchin, prominent farmer and resident of Isle of Wight 
County, near Franklin, died Wednesday night, February 4, in Raiford Memorial 
Hospital.  He had been in declining health for several years, but his 
condition had become critical only in the past few weeks.  At the time of his 
death he was 72 years of age.

   Mr. Cutchin was born in Isle of Wight County at the ancestral home, "Oak 
Crest" on May 20, 1875.  He was the son of the late Joseph J. and Jemima 
Ashburn Cutchin of Isle of Wight County.  On November 22, 1899, he married 
Miss Mary Cutchin of the Franklin community.

   During his childhood he joined the South Quay Baptist Church, in which he 
grew up; and he served that church as superintendent of the Sunday school and 
as a Deacon for a few years before moving his membership to the Franklin 
Baptist Church, where he was for forty years a Deacon, being the oldest in 
point of service in the church.  Twice he was Moderator of the Blackwater 
Baptist Association.

  Mr. Cutchin was a member of the committee of two who secured for the 
Franklin community the first rural mail delivery and mapped out the first 
routes in this section.  Since the organization of the Bureau of Vital 
Statistics he has served as registrar in his district.  He was a member of 
Nathaniel Bacon Chapter of Sons of the American Revolution, Holly Camp of the 
Woodmen of the World, the Farm Bureau, and the Farmer Club of Carrsville.

   Surviving him are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Casper L. Kollock and Mrs. 
Oscar H. Campbell of Dagsboro, Del.; three sons, Dr. Joseph Henry Cutchin and 
Braxton Murray Cutchins, Jr., of Easley, S.C., and William H. Cutchin of 
Franklin; five grandchildren; one brother, Dr. Ashley Cutchin of Franklin; a 
sister, Mrs. Josie Etta Cutchin of Franklin; and a number of nieces and 
nephews.

   Funeral services for Mr. Cutchin will be held at noon today (Friday) at the 
Franklin Baptist Church, with Rev. Randolph Gregory officiating, assisted by 
Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Cradock, a former pastor.  Interment will be in Poplar 
Spring Cemetery.  Active pallbearers will be A.A. Cutchin, Jr., Leonidas 
Cutchin, Frank Story Cutchin, A.P. Cutchin, Jr., Ernest L. Cutchin, and 
Lawless Cutchin.  The honorary pallbearers will be the Board of Deacons of the 
Baptist Church and Edgar Weede, Dr. J.C. Rawls, John Rawls, Ben Councill, 
Harry Steinhardt, E.P. Jones, Dr. J.B. Powell, G. Ellis Pillow, Gus Edwards, 
Truman Campbell, E.P. Willson, and H.G. Cobb, Sr.


Braxton Murray CUTCHIN, Isle of Wight Co. farmer & BVS registrar, 
b. 20 May 1875, "Oak Crest," Isle of Wight Co., d. 4 Feb 1948, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 9*), Franklin, 
   6 Feb 1948, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 6, 1948, p. 1 

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

His parents are buried is a CUTCHIN family cemetery at the end of 
   Wash Hole Rd. (Rt. 618), near the "solution ponds" of the paper mill. 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} CUTCHIN list (#158): 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Documents/Cutchin_Wash%20Hole%20Rd_Cemetery.doc 


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