Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Darden, Richard N., 1944 

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RICHARD NEWIT DARDEN 

   Richard Newit Darden died suddenly at his home in Newsoms Saturday, 
January 1, after being in failing health for about ten years.  Mr. Darden 
was born in the Newsoms community February 17, 1878, the son of the late 
James David Darden and Mrs. Mary Jane Harris Darden, both of old Southampton 
families.  His father was a gallant soldier of the Confederacy and was one 
of the famous New Market cadets, where he was wounded, a member of that 
immortal Virginia Military Institute student corps engaged in that battle.

   He was an alumnus of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, where he was a 
member of Kappa Alpha social fraternity.  Practically all of his life had 
been spent in farming, Mr. Darden being one of the largest farm owners and 
operators in Southampton County.  For a number of years he had been a member 
of the Southampton County School Board, and was a loyal communicant of the 
Newsoms Methodist Church.  He was quiet and unassuming in character, a true 
friend, a good citizen.

   On October 15, 1913, he married Miss Susan Digges of Richmond, who 
survives him with three sons: First Sergeant Richard N. Darden, Jr., of Camp 
Barkley, Texas; James Diggs Darden, who is with the Glenn L. Martin Airplane 
Plant in Baltimore, and Private Randolph Digges Darden, who is stationed at 
the College of Mines, El Paso, Texas.  There are two grandchildren, Susan 
Elaine and Richard Darden, 3rd, and two sisters, Mrs. Walter Tanner and Mrs. 
P.H. Booth, both of Petersburg.

   Funeral services were held from his late residence in Newsoms Monday 
afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Rev. F.L. Baker of Oxford Methodist Church, 
Suffolk, a former pastor of Mr. Darden's assisted by Rev. L.G. Tinnell and 
Rev. C.P. Cleveland of Newsoms.  The active bearers were: J. Fenton Matthews, 
F.F. Jenkins and H.L. Duff of Franklin, Ralf Champion of Courtland, R.B. 
Story, Jr., Geo. W. Prince, Henry E. Bailey and J.L. Dail of Newsoms. 
Honorary bearers were selected from friends of the family.

   Out-of-town friends who attended the funeral included: Mr. and Mrs. Abner 
S. Pope, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Leard and Mrs. James Culpeper of Norfolk; Mr. 
and Mrs. Reed Digges and Dudley Digges of Washington, and Miss Lulie Barham 
of Suffolk.


Richard Newit DARDEN, farmer, 
b. 17 Feb 1878, Newsoms, d. 1 Jan 1944, at home, Newsoms, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 3 Jan 1944, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 7, 1944, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-23): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

His widow's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Nov. 3, 1975, p. 24) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d635s4ob.txt 


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