Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Evans, Ernest G., 1940 

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ERNEST GRIMES EVANS

   Ernest Grimes Evans, 61, died at his home here Tuesday night after a short 
illness.  Mr. Evans was a native of Murfreesboro, N.C., the son of the late 
Richard Evans and Bettie Roberts Evans.  He had lived most of his life in 
Franklin, where he was employed as foreman of the tin shop of the W.T. Pace 
Hardware Company.  A member of High Street Methodist Church, Mr. Evans was 
also a member of the Woodmen of the World fraternal order.

   He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Herbert Edwards and Misses 
Elizabeth and Bertha Evans; two sons, E.G. Evans, Jr., and Jack Evans and a 
granddaughter Florence Ann Edwards, all of Franklin; four brothers, Bruce 
Evans of Portsmouth, John and Emmett Evans of Murfreesboro, N.C., and the 
Rev. Wallace Evans of Boydton; two sisters, Mrs. Harry Wilson of Morganton, 
N.C., and Miss Eunice Evans of Winston-Salem, N.C.

   Services were conducted by the Rev. B.B. Bland, pastor of the deceased, 
assisted by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Franklin Baptist Church, from the 
home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Edwards on First Avenue Thursday afternoon at 
2 o’clock.  Mr. Stephenson read Tennyson’s "Crossing the Bar" and the Rev. 
Wallace Evans spoke the committal at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery. 
Pallbearers were J.J. Pace, J. Richard Howell, W.T. Pace, Jr., Jesse Weede, 
Tim Butler and George Earnest.


[Ernest Grimes EVANS, W.T. Pace Hardware Co. tin-shop foreman, 
 Murfreesboro, NC native, d. 20 Aug 1940, at home, Franklin, age 61, 
 interred in the Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 70*), Franklin, 
    22 Aug 1940, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 23, 1940, p. 5] 

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

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