Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Darden, Walter E., 1945 

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WALTER EDWARD DARDEN

   W.E. Darden, chief of police in Franklin for a number of years, died at the 
home of his son, Spratley Darden, in Norfolk September 27, burial taking place 
in Courtland at the graveside of Riverside Cemetery September 30, at 4 o’clock 
with services conducted by Rev. Percy D. White of the Courtland Methodist 
Church, of which Mr. Darden was a member.

   The pallbearers were: Roland, Emmett and Thomas Vaughan, Stuart Sowell, 
Robert Duncan, Claude Applewhite, Henry Comstock and W.T. Acree.


Walter Edward DARDEN, former Franklin Chief of Police, 
d. 27 Sep 1945, at son's home, Norfolk, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 27; unmarked*), 
   Courtland, 30 Sep 1945, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 19, 1945 

*All in plot are unmarked. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

His first wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 27, 1920, p. 10) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d635e1ob.txt 

He is incorrectly listed in the 1940 Census as William Edward Darden, 53, 
   widowed, a watchman at the paper mill. (Franklin, e.d. 88-15) 

His Death Certificate (#18777) does not mention his second wife.


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William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com) and 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d635w3ob.txt