Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hatfield, James E. Sr., 1957 

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JAMES EDWARD HATFIELD, SR. 

   Funeral services for James Edward Hatfield, Sr., 80, a farmer in the 
Burdette community, who died Thursday morning, August 22, at his home, 
were conducted Saturday at 4 p.m. in the chapel of the W.J.M. Holland 
and Sons Funeral Home, Rev. Len B. Allen, pastor of Black Creek Baptist 
Church, officiated, assisted by Rev. C.C. Crutchfield, pastor of Mt. 
Carmel Christian Church, and Rev. Joe A. French, pastor of Hunterdale 
Christian Church.

   Mt. Hatfield was the husband of Mrs. Bertha Councill Hatfield and 
the son of the late Carr and Mrs. Margaret Joyner Hatfield of Southampton 
County.  He was a member of Black Creek Baptist Church, where he had 
served for years.

   In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Joseph Alvin 
Hatfield and James Edward Hatfield, Jr., both of Burdette; two daughters, 
Mrs. W.W. Vaughan of Franklin and Mrs. Lloyd Bradshaw of Burdette; a 
stepmother, Mrs. Bertha Rabey of Norfolk; 16 grandchildren; two great-
grandchildren; two brothers, M.C. Hatfield, Sr., of Suffolk and Herbert 
Hatfield of Norfolk; five sisters, Mrs. John Joyner, Sr., of Holland, Mrs. 
Lonnie Davis and Mrs. Ralph Berry, both of Norfolk, Mrs. Eugene Johnson of 
Newport News and Mrs. Owen Shifflett of Hagerstown, Md.

   Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  Active pallbearers were T.J. 
Blythe, Mills Faison, Arnold Bowden, Farris Stephens, J.T. Pond, 3rd and 
Arthur Carr.


James Edward HATFIELD, Sr., farmer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 22 Aug 1957, at home, Burdette, age 80, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 216*), Franklin, 
   24 Aug 1957, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 29, 1957, p. 7A 

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

His parents are buried in Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Black Creek list (BC-15): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," July 14, 1966, p. 7), 
   with their marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h314b1ob.txt 


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