Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ferguson, Lewis T., 1971 

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LEWIS THOMAS FERGUSON 

   A funeral service for Lewis Thomas Ferguson, 57, formerly of Capron and 
Boykins, was held last Thursday at 3 p.m. in the McDowell Funeral Home in 
Boykins by Rev. Harry Bunch, pastor of Newsoms United Methodist Church.

   Burial was in Hollywood Cemetery in Boykins. [sic; Newsoms] 

   Pallbearers were Ralph Ivey, James Tant, Harry Thorpe, Wayne Ferguson, 
Ronnie Ferguson and David Sharp.

   A native of Southampton County, he was a son of the late Thomas Nathan 
and Mrs. Annie Gray Ferguson and the husband of Mrs. Kathleen Wood Ferguson.

   Ferguson was a guard at Southampton State Farm until his illness and was 
also a veteran of WW II.

   Besides his wife, he is survived by one daughter, Miss Anita Ferguson, 
and one son, Lewis Thomas Ferguson Jr., both of Boykins; two stepsons, 
Alvis Campbell of Springfield and Ronnie Campbell of Lowesville; three 
sisters, Mrs. W.B. Ivey of Newsoms, Mrs. C.V. Cowan of Baltimore, Md., and 
Mrs. William Hricinak of Hampton; three brothers, Floyd Ferguson of 
Portsmouth, Aubrey T. Ferguson of Newport News and Linwood M. Ferguson of 
Little Rock, Ark.; and two grandchildren.


Lewis Thomas FERGUSON, retired State Farm guard, 
Army Air Force veteran of WW-II, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 15 Jun 1971, age 57, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 17 Jun 1971, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 24, 1971, p. 4 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-34): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

His first wife, Ethel Mae FERGUSON, is also buried there, with her second 
   husband, "Buck" PORTER.  (N-53) 

His widow is buried in Amherst Cemetery, Amherst Co. 


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