Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Crumpler, Joseph P., 1938 

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JOSEPH PETER CRUMPLER 

FUNERAL RITES FOR DROWNED MAN HELD 

   Funeral services for Joe Peter Crumpler, 35, who was drowned while fishing 
on the Nottoway River sometime between Monday and Tuesday.  Funeral services 
were held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the graveyard of Sycamore 
Baptist Church.  A combined choir from Sycamore and Sunbeam Baptist Church, of 
which latter congregation Crumpler was a member, sang "The Old, Rugged Cross" 
and "Sometime We’ll Understand" at the grave.  The Rev. C.P. Cleveland of 
Newsoms Baptist Church, assisted by the Rev. C.P. Cleveland of Newsoms Baptist 
Church, assisted by the Rev. F.P. Davis of Courtland Baptist charge, 
officiated. Pallbearers were Mack Floyd, Hubert Bridges, Ray Porter, Bedford 
Smart, Johnnie Spivey and Claude Edwards.

   Crumpler and a Negro identified as James H. Rogers and said to be about 40 
years old, had gone fishing Monday afternoon near Monroe Bridge.  When they 
did not return a search was organized by Sheriff T.B. Bell which lasted until 
4 o’clock of the following afternoon, when both bodies were found floating in 
a part of Nottoway River known as Simmons Gut, in about the middle of the 
channel.  No marks of violence were found on either body and their death were 
ascribed by Sheriff Bell to accidental drowning.

   Crumpler was the son of C.D. Crumpler and the late Mrs. Maggie Daughtrey 
Crumpler.  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Bohannon Crumpler; a 
daughter, Lois Crumpler; two sons, William and Charles Joseph Crumpler, all of 
the Sunbeam community.


"Joe Peter" Joseph Pendleton CRUMPLER, farmer, 
b. 3 Apr 1903, Southampton Co., 
drowned 25 Jul 1938, Nottoway R., near Monroe Bridge, age 38, 
interred in Sycamore Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 1, Plot 5; unmarked*), 
   26 Jul 1938, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 29, 1938, p. 1 

*Added to the list of his pat. grandparents' plot. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (MV-IV-30): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

His parents & mat. grandparents are buried in a COTTON family cemetery, 
   across the road from Sycamore Baptist Church. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (MV-IV-30): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 15, 1960, p. 4) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c651c1ob.txt 

Middle name from D.Cert. 29629 (Franklin #43), a copy (reg. 9 Jun 1939), 
   "received from the Sheriff in this case" 

His companion's D.Cert. (17297 {Newsoms #3}) gives: 
   James Rogers of Handsom, 42, Farmer 
   s/o John Henry & Mary Reid Rogers 
   h/o Hattie Rogers 
   drowned accidentally in river fishing, 25 Jul 1938, 
   bu. 28 Jul 1938, Handsom 


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

file at: 
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