Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Griffin, Charles W., 1933 

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CHARLES WALTER GRIFFIN

   Charles Walter Griffin died at his home near Clarksbury Church, this 
county, Saturday afternoon following a lingering illness.  Mr. Griffin was 
born April 2, 1894, and is the son of Jesse Griffin and the late Mrs. Lola 
Johnson Griffin of Southampton County.  Besides his father, he is survived 
by his wife and three children, Herbert, Esther and Catherine; a sister, Mrs. 
Maggie Dunlow of Boykins; a brother J.R. Griffin Capron; two half-sisters, 
Mrs. Carrie Baugham and Miss Mary Griffin and one half-brother; Algie Griffin, 
of Boykins.

   Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Beechwood Cemetery with Rev. 
F.B. Handley officiating, assisted by Rev. R.L. Haga.  Active pallbearers were 
Dr. J.M. Bland, S.P. Johnson, A. Sidney Francis, J.S. Musgrave, R.E. Ricks, 
W.L. Worrell and W.H. Barnes.  The choirs of the Boykins churches sang "Jesus 
Lover of My Soul" and "Rock of Ages."


Charles Walter GRIFFIN, farmer, 
b. 2 Apr 1894, Southampton Co., 
d. 22 Apr 1933, at home, near Clarksbury Church, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 247*), Boykins, 23 Apr 1933, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 28, 1933, p. 1 

*His father & step-mother are buried in Annex 2, Plot 220. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Beechwood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 19, 1952, p. 3), 
   with records of both of his marriages appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d540r1ob.txt 

His widow (1900 - 1962) 2m. Willis Franklin CARTER and 3m. Robert Edward 
   SMITH.  She is buried with her parents in Beechwood Cemetery - 
   Annex 1, Section G, Plot 1. 

Robert is buried in Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery, Nansemond Co. 
   Cypress Chapel list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cypress.txt 


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