Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Percy B., 1951 

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Funeral Today for P. B. Edwards 

  FRANKLIN, Dec. 16 - Percy Bynum Edwards, 57, well-known businessman and 
resident of Joyners, died suddenly Thursday afternoon while enroute to a 
Richmond Hospital. 

  He was the son of the late Bynum and Nella [Nelia] Bell Griffin Edwards, 
of Southampton county, and husband of Jane Burgess Edwards, of Joyners, who 
survives him.  He was a member of Joyners Methodist Church, where he served 
as a steward and superintendent of the Sunday school for the past thirty 
years.  He served as postmaster for ten years and was a member of Masonic 
Lodge 85 of Courtland. 

  Besides his wife he is survived two sons, George B. Edwards, Joyners, and 
Phillip D. Edwards, Emporia; three daughters, Mrs. Catherine Dunn, of 
Joyners, Mrs. Paxina Edwards, of Courtland, and Mrs. Sara Wrenn, of Emporia; 
five grandchildren: four brothers, Carl F. Edwards, of Joyners, J.D. and M.B. 
Edwards, of Capron, and L.R. Edwards, of Emporia; three sisters, Mrs. Phillip 
Blood of Richmond, Mrs. Marshall Johnson, of Emporia, and Mrs. Willie Worrell, 
of Courtland. 

  Funeral services will be held this afternoon at two o'clock at Joyner 
Methodist Church.  Rev. J.T. Cassell, pastor, and Rev. L.D. Staples, a former 
pastor, will officiate.  Interment will be in the church cemetery, with 
Masonic rites. 


Percy Bynum EDWARDS [II], of Joyners, merchant & Postmaster, 
b. 1 Dec 1894, Southampton Co., d. 13 Dec 1951, Richmond, 
interred in Joyner Methodist Church Cemetery*, near Capron, 16 Dec 1951, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 29, No. 296, Sun., Dec. 16, 1951, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 7 (VII-37): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol7.txt 

No Find a Grave Memorial 

D.Cert. 27189 (Richmond #3156) gives his father as Peter Bynum. 

His parents are buried in Capron Cemetery. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Capron list (C-11): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/capron.txt 


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