Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Council, Benjamin A., 1971 

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Benjamin A. Council 

Ivor - Benjamin A. Biddy Council, 70, died Wednesday in Louise Obici 
Memorial Hospital, Suffolk, after an illness of three months. 

A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Mrs Edith Horne 
Council and a son of Samuel D. and Mrs. Sallie Judson Council.* 

He was a retired merchant. 

He was a member of Tucker Swamp Baptist Church and Blackwater Masonic 
Lodge 134. 

Besides his widow, surviving are three sons, Wayland H. Council, Benjamin 
Alton Council, Jr. and Emerson W. Council, and a daughter, Mrs. Warren R. 
Cobb, all of Ivor; three sisters, Mrs. Louise C. Atkinson of Newport News, 
Mrs. Mable C. Wellons, and Mrs. Edgar Felts of Ivor; a brother, Judson 
Council and Lynchburg; and seven grandchildren. 

A funeral service will be held Friday at 2:30 pm in Purviance Funeral 
Chapel, Wakefield, by the Rev. Brian L. Tiffany.  Burial with Masonic 
rites, will be in Tucker Swamp Church cemetery. 

The family will be at the Wayland H. Council home in Ivor. 

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BENJAMIN ALTON COUNCIL 

   IVOR - A funeral service for Benjamin A. "Biddy" Council, 70, of Ivor was 
held Friday at 2:30 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield, by the Rev. 
Brian L. Tiffany.

   Burial, with Masonic rites, was in Tucker Swamp Church Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Fenton Worrell, Aubrey Worrell, Leslie C. Felts, Joe 
Hobbs, Clifton Britt, J.R. Bowden, James Atkinson and Emmett Barrett.

   A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Mrs. Edith Horne 
Council and a son of Samuel D. and Mrs. Sallie Judson Council.*

   He was a retired merchant.

   He was a member of Tucker Swamp Baptist Church and Blackwater Masonic 
Lodge 134.

   Besides his widow, surviving are three sons, Wayland H. Council, Benjamin 
Alton Council Jr. and Emerson W. Council, and a daughter, Mrs. Warren R. Cobb, 
all of Ivor; three sisters, Mrs. Louise C. Atkinson of Newport News and Mrs. 
Mable C. Wellons and Mrs. Edgar Felts of Ivor; a brother Judson Council of 
Lynchburg; and seven grandchildren.


Benjamin Alton "Biddy" COUNCIL [Sr.], of Ivor, retired merchant, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 10 Nov 1971, Suffolk, age 70, 
interred in Tucker Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery**, 12 Nov 1971, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown, hand-written date 11-10-71; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 15, 1971, p. 2 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Tucker Swamp list (TS-15): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/tckrswp.txt 

*His parents may be buried in a COUNCIL family cemetery on New Rd., q.v. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-52): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 

While the obit & his Death Certificate (#71-034717) both give his mother as 
   Sallie Judson Council, and he had a brother named Judson, she seems 
   identical with Sallie Jane COUNCILL, who 1m. 1895 Jesse S. WHITMAN/WHITMER 
   & 2m. Samuel D. COUNCIL/COUNCILL. 
   Details are appended to her [provisional] cemetery listing. 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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