Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Halsey, Sylvanus P., 1966 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ SYLVANUS PAUL HALSEY A funeral service was conducted Friday at 2:30 p.m. in Sedley Baptist Church for Sylvanus Halsey, by the Rev. C.L. Gatling. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley. The body was taken to the church from W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home, Franklin. Pallbearers were Clarence Halsey, Melvin Saunders, Wallace Taylor, Connie Demais, David Halsey and Phillip Robinson. He was the husband of the late Mrs. Texie Barham Halsey. A native of Chowan County, N.C., he was a member of Sedley Baptist Church. Surviving are three sons, W.L. Halsey of Sedley, Clyde Halsey of Norfolk, and J.W. Halsey of Elizabeth City; a daughter, Mrs. W.B. Taylor of Chesapeake; and 21 grandchildren. Sylvanus [Sylvester*] Paul HALSEY, Chowan Co., NC native, d. 6 May 1966, age 61, interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 13 May 1966, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 16, 1966, p. 3 *Cemetery list gives first name as Sylvester, rather than Sylvanus; source for date of death. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Rosemont list (S-33): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h420s1ob.txt