Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Drewry, Edgar A., 1973 

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EDGAR ALLEN DREWRY 

  ZUNI - A funeral service for Edgar Allen Drewry, 82, of Zuni, was held 
Monday, Jan. 22 at 2 p.m. in the Black Creek Baptist Church by the Rev. 
William L. Cribb.

  Burial was in the Black Creek Baptist Church cemetery.

  Pallbearers were D.S. Edward, Jr., Grant Brock, James Hatfield, August 
Bradshaw, Linwood Bradshaw, Willie Bradshaw, Cecil Edwards and Reginald 
Bradshaw.

  Drewry died Saturday, Jan. 20 at 4:35 a.m. in Southampton Memorial Hospital 
after a brief illness.

  A native of Southampton County, he was a son of Samuel J. and Mrs. Martha 
Louise Edwards Drewry and the husband of Mrs. Annie Mae Corbitt Drewry.

  He was a member of Black Creek Baptist Church, a deacon, and former treasury 
of the church.  He was Army veteran of World War I and a retired farmer.

  Besides his wife, he is survived by a brother, Aurelius Edwards Drewry of 
Zuni; three nieces, Miss Martha Lou Drewry, Mrs. Elsie Beasley and Mrs. Nell 
Pittman, three nephews, Fenton Earl Drewry, George Samuel Drewry and Wilbur 
Drewry.


Edgar Allen DREWRY, retired farmer, Army veteran of WW-I, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 20 Jan 1973, Franklin, age 82, 
interred in Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery*, 22 Jan 1973, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 1, 1973, p. A-3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Black Creek list (BC-11): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt 

His in-laws are buried in a CORBITT family cemetery, One Mile Rd., near Unity. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 6 (VI-18): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol6.txt 


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