Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, C. Ashby, 1919 

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C. ASHBY GRAY

  C.A. Gray of this town died suddenly in his store in Main Street Tuesday 
afternoon, September 9, at about 5:30 o'clock.  He was in his 38th year, was 
a successful merchant, an upright business man and had been in the grocery 
business here for a number of years.  He is survived by his widow and six 
children, four girls and two boys, besides a brother living in Richmond. 

   The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in Poplar Spring 
cemetery by Dr. C.H. Rowland of the Franklin Christian Church, pastor of the 
deceased.  The active pallbearers were W.H. Jones, G.T. Stephenson, W.A. 
Daughtrey, E.C. Beale, Harry Steinhardt, I.E. Howell, J.R. Councill and J.R. 
McLane; honorary, Uriah Rawls, C.H. Stakes, J.A. O'berry, G.C. Hand and J.L. 
Harcum. 


Cecil Ashby Gray, Franklin grocer, 
Vicksville native, d. 9 Sep 1919, at work, age 38, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Sect. 2, Plot 94A*), 10 Sep 1919, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 12, 1919, p. 8 

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


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