Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cohen, Virginia A. Bryant, 1960 

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VIRGINIA ALICE BRYANT PERSON DARDEN COHEN

   BOYKINS - Mrs. Virginia Person Cohen, 74, died in a Suffolk hospital Sunday 
at 8:15 p.m. after several months’ illness.

   The widow of Alfred E. Cohen, she was a daughter of Jonas R. and Annie 
Britt Bryant, a native of Southampton County and a member of Boykins Baptist 
Church and Southampton Chapter 68, Order of Eastern Star.

   Surviving are a son, W. Bernard Person of Boykins; four sisters, Mrs. J.H. 
Keen of Newport News, Mrs. Doris Goff of Charlotte, N.C., Mrs. O.W. Gray of 
Boykins and Mrs. Thomas Fenton of Texas; a brother R.S. Bryant of Boykins; two 
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

   A funeral service was held in H.M. Purviance Funeral Home Tuesday at 2:30 
p.m. by the Rev. Ben B. Ussery of Boykins Baptist Church and the Rev. H.G. 
Thach of Boykins Methodist Church.  Burial was in Beechwood Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Dr. Charles W. Steel, C.B. Hogan, Ryland Fowler, David 
Sykes, L. Milton Draper, Jack Britt and Alex Bell.


Virginia Alice (BRYANT PERSON DARDEN; Mrs. Alfred E.) COHEN, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 21 Aug 1960, Suffolk, age 74, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 192/193**), Boykins, 
   23 Aug 1960, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 25, 1960, Section 3, p. 4 

Additional information: 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Beechwood Cemetery: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 

Her parents are buried in the BRYANT family cemetery, near Boykins. 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 6 (VI-39): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol6.txt 

Virginia 1m. John R. PERSON (1874-1937) - union not found in Southampton Co. 
   records (through 1919). 

She 2m. Colgate W. DARDEN Sr.  His obit ("Tidewater News," May 11, 1945, p. 1) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d635c3ob.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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