Southampton County-Hampton City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Darden, Alfred C., 1948 

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ALFRED CARLYLE DARDEN

   Alfred Carlyle Darden, 64, postmaster at Old Point, died Saturday 
afternoon, October 16, at one o’clock at Dixie Hospital, Hampton, of a 
cerebral hemorrhage.  He had been ill for some time.

   The son of the late Alfred Moore and Mrs. Betty Holley Darden, he was 
born in Elm Grove, Hertford County, N.C., in 1884.  He was educated at 
Franklin Academy and at the public school then on Norfleet Street, 
spending the early part of his life here with his brother, the late 
Colgate W. Darden, Sr.  For many years he was active in the insurance 
business in Norfolk and Newport News, and later became postmaster at 
Old Point.

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bessie Kyle Darden; two daughters, 
Capt Elizabeth Darden, AUS, now in the Philippine Islands, and Mrs. A.A. 
Koscienlick of Devens, Mass.; one brother J.H. Darden of Elm Grove, N.C., 
one grandchild.  His only son, Lt. Alfred C. Darden, Jr., was killed in 
World War II.

   Funeral services were conducted at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery 
on Monday at noon by Rev. J.A. Vache, rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. 
The active pallbearers were Pretlow Darden, C.W. Darden, Jr., Harvey Lindsay, 
Clarence G. Darden, J. Fenton Matthews, Joseph P. King, John Bell and A.C. 
Thompson.


Alfred Carlyle DARDEN (Sr.), Old Point (Comfort) postmaster, 
b. 1884, Elm Grove, Hertford Co., NC, d. 16 Oct 1948, Hampton, age 64, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 2B*), Franklin, 
   18 Oct 1948, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 22, 1948, p. 5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," May 16, 1963, Sect. I, p. 6) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d635b4ob.txt 


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