Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Grizzard, Robert L., 1940 

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ROBERT LEE GRIZZARD

   Funeral services for Robert Lee Grizzard, who died Monday afternoon, March 
18, near his home in Drewryville, were conducted Wednesday afternoon at his 
late home with interment in Memorial Cemetery, Drewryville.  The services were 
conducted by his pastor, the Rev. Albert W. Coates, assisted by the Rev. Frank 
B. Handley of Boykins.  Masonic rites were performed at the grave.

   Mr. Grizzard was born near Drewryville in 1879, in Southampton County.  He 
was the son of the late Franklin P. Grizzard and Mrs. Mary Ann Harris 
Grizzard.  Mr. Grizzard had been Supervisor of his district for sixteen years, 
and for eight years had been a member of the local school board.  The deceased 
had been a citizen of Southampton all his life and was one of its most 
successful farmers and citizens.

   At about eleven years of age he professed religion and unite with Antioch 
Baptist Church.  After he moved to Drewryville he joined Thomas Memorial 
Baptist Church, of which he was a member at the time of his death.

   In 1903 Mr. Grizzard was united in marriage to Miss Alice Elizabeth 
Mondell.  To this union there were born the following children: Dr. Alton 
Grizzard of the V.P.I. faculty, Blacksburg; George F. Grizzard of Blacksburg; 
Miss Alice Grizzard of the Boykins High School faculty, and Samuel William 
Grizzard, a student at the Medical College of Virginia.

   Pallbearers were L.H. Babb, Dr. J.M. Bland, L.W. McGarth and J.M. Camp, 
member of the Southampton County Board of Supervisors; J.L. Doughtie and T.H. 
Barrett, former members and H.B. McLemore, Jr., county clerk.


Robert Lee GRIZZARD, former district Supervisor & school board member, 
b. 1879, near Drewryville, d. 18 Mar 1940, near home, Drewryville, 
interred in Thomas Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery*, Drewryville, 
   20 Mar 1940, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 29, 1940, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Drewryville list (D-13): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/drewryvl.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 6, 1955) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g626a1ob.txt 

His parents are buried in a GRIZZARD family cemetery on Rivers Mill Rd., 
   Capron.  SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 9 (IX-8): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol9.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," May 3, 1935) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g626f1ob.txt 

An abstract of his mother's death certificate (1926-863-10903) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/deaths/g626m1dc.txt 


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