Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cotton, Vernard P., 1965 

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VERNARD PRESTON COTTON

   Vernard Preston Cotton, 66, died at his home suddenly Saturday morning from 
heart attack.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Annie Laurie Darden Cotton, and the son of the 
late George and Mattie Vaughan Cotton of Southampton County.

   A member of the Sycamore Baptist Church, and a member of the Fork of the 
River Ruritan Club, he was employed by William Howell as clerk in the 
mercantile business.

   Surviving besides his wife are two sons, Preston D. Cotton, and T. Redelle 
Cotton, both of Franklin; one daughter, Mrs. Caroline Ferguson, also of 
Franklin, five grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Susie 
C. Archie, and one brother Munroy Cotton, both of Portsmouth.

   The body was taken to the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home in Franklin, 
where funeral service will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the chapel, by the Rev. 
Thomas F. Mabe, pastor of the Sycamore Baptist Church, and Rev. L.M. Knight, 
former pastor, of Blossox, Virginia.  Burial will be held in Franklin Cemetery.


Vernard Preston COTTON, business clerk, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 1 May 1965, at home, age 66, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section B, Plot 47B*), Franklin, 
   3 May 1965, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 3, 1965, p. 2 

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

His widow's obit ("Virginian-Pilot," Feb 1993) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c350a1ob.txt 

His mother is buried with her in-laws in a COTTON fam.cem, 
   across Sycamore Church Rd. from Sycamore Baptist Church. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (MV-II-34): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 


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

file at: 
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