Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Clayton, 1945 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ CLAYTON EDWARDS After an illness of several days of cholera infantum, Clayton*, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Edwards, died a the home of his parents, near Franklin, at 8 o'clock, Friday morning, May 11, 1906, aged eighteen months. The funeral took place at 5 o'clock Saturday evening, Rev. J.D. Hufham, D.D., reading the burial service. The remains were placed in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the following being the pallbearers: J.D. Abbitt, R.A. Pretlow, J.L. Camp, J.A. Pretlow, Dr. W.H. Arthur and A.L. Gardner. *Text, as originally published, gave Clauton, rather than Clayton - I assumed it was a typo. (bs) Clayton EDWARDS, son of Claude J. & Marion (LAWLESS) EDWARDS, d. 11 May 1906, at home, near Franklin, age 18 months, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 4*), Franklin, 12 May 1906, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 14, 1906, p. 5 *Buried with his paternal grandparents. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt His parents are buried with his maternal grandparents. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list (Section 2, Plot 87A): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt Additional information: His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 29, 1946, p. 1) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e363c4ob.txt His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 23, 1961, p. 1), with their marriage record appended, is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e363m3ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e363c5ob.txt