Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Giles, Jesse A., 1951 

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JESSE ALBION GILES

   Jesse Albion Giles, 76, husband of Mrs. Florence Culler Giles of Franklin 
died in Raiford Memorial Hospital died early Sunday morning, September 23, 
following a stroke sustained on Friday September 14. 

   Mr. Giles was the son of the late Rev. Jesse L. and Nancy Jane York Giles 
of Randolph County, N.C.  He was a graduate of Davidson College and the law 
school of Wake Forest College.  For some years he was a law partner of the 
late Judge R.H. Sykes of Durham, N.C.  He served as state legislator, district 
attorney of western North Carolina, and postmaster of Durham from 1912 to 
1916.  Later he practiced law in Hillsboro and Chapel Hill.  After retiring 
from active practice he made his home in Franklin. 

   Besides his wife he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Stanley T. Holland 
of Franklin, Mrs. William R. Sowers of Cambridge, Md. and Mrs. Fred Boyer of 
Roswell, N. Mex.; three sons, W. Everett Giles of Winston-Salem, N.C., Dr. 
J.A. Giles, Jr. of Wilmington, Del, and Maj. Robert T. Giles, USAF, London, 
England; 13 grandchildren and four great-grand children; one sister, Mrs. Orin 
Calloway of High Point, N.C.; and several nephews and nieces. 

   Funeral services were conducted at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery on 
Monday morning at 11 o'clock by Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, pastor of the Franklin 
Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. R.D. Stephenson and John M. Gessell. 

   Active pallbearers were Vaughan Beale, George R. Brown, Everett R. Bryant, 
Joe Gay Bryant, Dr. J.W. Lambdin, J. Earl McGowan, J. Edward Moyler and L.B. 
Norfleet. 


Jesse Albion GILES, of Franklin, 
retired lawyer, former NC state legislator, D.A. & Durham postmaster, 
NC native, d. 23 Sep 1951, Franklin, age 76, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 187*), Franklin, 
   24 Sep 1951, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 28, 1951 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 30, 1958, I-8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g420j1ob.txt 


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