Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Councill, Charles Monroe, 1918 

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CHARLES MONROE COUNCILL

   Charles Monroe Councill died at his home in Burdette Saturday night, 
October 5, at about 10 o'clock in the thirty-eighth year of his life, after a 
brief illness from pneumonia brought on by Spanish influenza.  The deceased 
was postmaster of Burdette and a merchant of that village.  He was a 
consistent and useful member of Black Creek Baptist Church, one of the deacons 
of the church and a valuable member of the community.  He was also a member of 
Bay Rose Camp No. 157, W.O.W. of Burdette.  He was a kind and indulgent father 
and husband and will be missed by a wide circle of friends who esteemed and 
loved him.

   He is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter; by his mother, Mrs. 
Virginia Councill of Burdette; two brothers, John R. Councill of Franklin and 
E.A. Councill of Burdette; three sisters Mrs. J.L. Holland of Unity, Mrs. J.F. 
Johnson of Windsor, Va., and Mrs. J.E. Hatfield of Burdette. 

   The burial services were conducted in Black Creek cemetery where the 
interment was made Monday afternoon, October 7, at 3:30 o'clock, Rev. J.L. 
McCutcheon conducting the funeral rites.  The pallbearers were R.E. Drewry, 
R.L. Corbett, Oscar Joyner, Paul Spivey, Hawke Lowe, J.H. Spivey, R.L. Lewis 
and Arthur Carr. 

[Charles Monroe COUNCILL, Burdette merchant & postmaster, 
 d. 5 Oct 1918, at home, Burdette, age 38, 
 interred in Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery*, 7 Oct 1918, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 11, 1918, p. 1] 

[*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Black Creek list (BC-11): 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt] 

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