Southampton-Culpeper County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Foushee, Rev. Nathan B., 1934 

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REV. NATHAN BANGS FOUSHEE

   Rev. N.B. Foushee, widely-known and greatly-beloved throughout Virginia, 
died November 9, 1934, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E.N. Johnson, in 
Ivor. Mr. Foushee attended the Virginia M.E. Conference in Lynchburg last 
month, where he answered the roll call for the 58th consecutive year, and 
being unable to complete the journey to his home in Sunbeam where he lived 
with his daughter, Mrs. J.T. Bryant, and Mr. Bryant, had stopped over with 
his daughter, Mrs. Johnson, in Ivor. There he passed peacefully away in his 
87th year, few men having been granted a longer and more useful life than he.

   Rev. Nathan Bangs Foushee was born in Culpeper County, Va., January 30, 
1848, the son of the late John C. and Mrs. Mary Caton Foushee of that county. 
He was the oldest of a family of nine sisters and brothers, three of whom 
survive, Mrs. John S. Miller of Orange County, Mrs. Granville White and Mrs. 
T.B. Manuel of Culpeper, Va. In 1881, he married Miss Lelia A. Robertson of 
Bedford County who died at Sunbeam January 11, 1931. Their four children are: 
Mrs. M.J. Railey of Como, N.C., Mrs. J.T. Bryant and Mrs. Jno. W. Bryant of 
Sunbeam and Mrs. E.N. Johnson of Ivor, besides several grandchildren, a 
number of nieces and nephews and a host of friends.

   The story of Mr. Foushee’s life could not be adequately told here as to its 
fullness and usefulness, both in service to his Master whom he so faithfully 
followed and to his fellowmen. He preached his first sermon September 8, 1874, 
the beginning of a ministry of 49 years duration, characterized by unselfish 
service and blessed by far reaching results for good. Being admitted to the 
Virginia M.E. Conference in 1876, he completed the four year course and came 
into full connection in 1880, along with ten others, only three of whom 
survive, Rev. J.T. Mastin, Rev. H.S. Johnson and Rev. N.J. Pruden. His entire 
ministry was in the country, first as colporteur, then as junior preacher on 
the Bedford Circuit, followed by fruitful work on these circuits; Berlin, 
South Campbell, Mount Pleasant, Bedford, Henrico, Dinwiddie, Newsoms, South 
Norfolk, South Princess Ann, Wakefield, Mathews, Lawrenceville and Windsor, 
Va. From the last-named circuit he was superannuated in 1923 on account of his 
advanced years and the failing health of his wife. Since that year Mr. and 
Mrs. Foushee had made their home with Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Bryant of Sunbeam.

   Although the exigencies of the period of the War Between the States 
deprived him of a college degree, he was, nevertheless, fully educated within 
the most comprehensive meaning of the term, his father being his teacher as a 
boy and young man, and it is not too much to say of him that his life so 
nearly fitted the biblical description of His Lord that "He increased in 
wisdom and stature and in favor with God and Man."

   Funeral services were conducted from the Ivor M.E. Church Sunday afternoon 
at 2 o’clock by Dr. L.S. Flournoy, presiding elder of this district, assisted 
by Reverends J.K. Holman, J.T. Mastin, L.F. Callahan, A.K. Lambdin, L.J. Derby 
and Roscoe Jones. Favorite hymns were sung by the choirs of the Ivor churches, 
an especially appropriate and timely tribute being made during the service by 
his old classmate and relative, Dr. J.T. Mastin. An unusually large assemblage 
of friends at Ivor was greatly increased by the crowd awaiting the committal 
service in the family plot at Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, at 4 o’clock 
where Masonic rites were observed by Wakefield Lodge A.F. & A.M., of which Mr. 
Foushee was a member, assisted by many Masons from throughout the county and 
section. Active pallbearers were: W.C. Rawls, R.B. Bryant, Jr., V.K. 
Daughtrey, J.W. Pond, Robert Pond, James C. Story, G.A. Fowler and Jas. T. 
Gillette, the honorary bearers being the Masons in attendance and a large 
number of friends from Ivor, Newsoms, Franklin, Courtland and Como.


Rev. Nathan Bangs FOUSHEE, retired Methodist minister, 
b. 30 Jan 1848, Culpeper Co., d. 9 Nov 1934, at daughter's home, Ivor, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 75*), Franklin, 
   11 Nov 1934, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 16, 1934, pp. 1 & 8 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Additional information: 

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 16, 1931, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f200l1ob.txt 

A sketch of his career is included in the following work: 

Lafferty, John James. 
"Sketches and Portraits of the Virginia Conference." 
Virginia: 1901 
(Google Books - books.google.com) 


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