Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Freeman, Hattie L. Boykin, 1954 

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HATTIE BOYKIN FREEMAN

   Mrs. Hattie Boykin Freeman, 71, the oldest member of the Ivor Baptist 
Church, died in a Suffolk hospital on Friday, December 24.  She was the wife 
of the late James Robert Freeman.

   Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Claude Parkinson and Miss Evelyn 
Freeman of Richmond and Mrs. L.E. Pope of Waverly; three sons, Felix H. 
Freeman of Richmond, Howard R. Freeman of Smithfield and Robert L. Freeman of 
Wakefield; 12 grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Viola Freeman of Norfolk; and 
three brothers, Charles Boykin of Wakefield, Frank L. Boykin of Richmond, and 
R. Oscar Boykin of Colonial Beach.

   Services for Mrs. Freeman were conducted in the Purviance Funeral Chapel, 
Wakefield, on Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock by Rev. Julian S. Orrell, pastor 
of the deceased, and Rev. R.E. Brittle. The choir sang "In the Garden" and 
"When They Ring Those Golden Bells."

   Burial was in the Wakefield Cemetery. Pallbearers were Fred Ashby, K.E. 
Bailey, W.A. Bailey, Stanley Brantley, Marshall Brittle, Wallace Brittle, Dr. 
L.C. Kress and H.L. Mundle.


Hattie Lee (BOYKIN; Mrs. James R.) FREEMAN, 
d. 24 Dec 1954, Suffolk, age circa 71*, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 26 Dec 1954, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 30, 1954 

*Additional information: 

Wakefield list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

Her gravestone shows 1883 - 1954.  (Find a Grave Mem. #23402418) 

D.Cert. 28212 (Chuckatuck #263) gives b. 24 Sep 1878. 

Her husband's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," May 9, 1947, p. 21) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/f655j1ob.txt 

Her parents, JAMES THOMAS & Ada Winnie (BOWDEN) BOYKIN, are buried in a 
   BOYKIN family cemetery, on Boothe Rd., near Ivor. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-52): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 


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