Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Crichton, Edward W., 1934 

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EDWARD WINFIELD CRICHTON

E.W. CRICHTON, LEADING FARMER AND CITIZEN OF CAPRON, DIES SATURDAY

   Edward Winfield Crichton died at his home near Capron Saturday morning, 
July 7, after an illness of many months.  Mr. Crichton, who was 75 years of 
age, was a leading farmer and citizen of the Capron community.  He had served 
his district and county acceptably as a member of the Board of Supervisors 
from 1916 to 1920 and was an active, public-spirited citizen, always 
interested in everything conducive to the highest welfare of his county and 
its people.  He was a successful and progressive farmer and had always 
manifested a keen interest in improved methods of farming and in the 
development of agriculture as practiced on his own farm.  For a number of 
years he had been Vice President of the Bank of Capron; was one of the leading 
members of Applewhite M.E. Church where he taught in its Sunday school, and 
was affiliated with Courtland Lodge No. 85, A.F. & A.M.

   He was the son of the late Dr. James Crichton and Mrs. Margaret Ann 
Elizabeth Crichton of Brunswick and Southampton counties.  Besides his 
wife, Mrs. Rena Joyner Crichton, he leaves four sons, F.B. and Edwards Jr., of 
Capron, Winfield and Leroy of Pennsylvania; four daughters, Mrs. W.A. Hawks of 
Carson, Mrs. W.H. Holmes, Misses Margaret and Florence Crichton of Capron, and 
several grandchildren.

   Funeral services were conducted from his late residence Sunday afternoon at 
5 o’clock by his Pastor, Rev. R.H. Marks of Capron, and burial was made in the 
Capron Cemetery.  A quartette from Stoney Creek, Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Freeman, 
Miss Janet Freeman and I.A. Prince, sang a number of favorite hymns during the 
service, and the active pallbearers were: V.A. Pittman, J. Elwood Fox, C.B. 
Harding, H.L. Bain, W.H. Story, R.S. Nicholson, W.B. Simmons and J.D. Vick, a 
large number of honorary bearers being selected from friends of the family. 
The casket was covered with a pall of Easter lilies and sweetpeas.


Edward Winfield CRICHTON [Sr.], farmer & banker, former Supervisor, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 7 Jul 1934, at home, near Capron, age 75, 
interred in Capron Cemetery*, 8 Jul 1934, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 13, 1934, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Capron list (C-8): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/capron.txt 

His father is buried (unmarked) in a CRICHTON family cemetery, 
   on Pope Station Rd. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-58): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

The family appears in the 1860 Census in Southampton Co., West of the Nottoway 
   River (p. 11).  His father's birthplace is given as Brunswick, but there is 
   a tiny scrawl above -wick, transcribed as "Germany" at FamilySearch.org. 

Dr. James E. CREIGHTON died 23 Dec 1864 in Southampton Co. 
   (Southampton Co. D.Recs. {recopied}, p. 156 [orig.p. 1 #39]) 

The family ("Crayton") appears in the 1880 Census in Boykins Dist. (#102), 
   Southampton Co.  E.W., his 3 sister's & their mother- and the father & 
   mother of each- are all given as b. Va. 


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