Southampton-Mecklenburg County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holt, Benjamin L., 1938 

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BENJAMIN LEIGH HOLT

  Franklin, July 4 - (Special) - Funeral services for Benjamin Leigh Holt, 
aged 66, paymaster for the Camp Manufacturing Company who died Sunday morning 
as a result of injuries sustained when struck by an automobile, will be 
conducted tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock from the Franklin Baptist Church.

  The Rev. R.D. Stephenson, pastor of the church, will officiate.  Burial will 
be in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

  Mr. Holt was struck by an automobile allegedly driven by Frank Myrick, Negro 
insurance agent, on the Suffolk highway, just outside of Franklin.  He was 
about to get into the automobile of Franklin Whitfield when he was hit.

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BEN L. HOLT, HONORED CITIZEN, DIES SUNDAY FROM AUTO INJURIES

   B.L. Holt, well-known Franklin citizen and paymaster in the general offices 
of the Camp Manufacturing Company here for many years, died in Raiford 
Hospital early Sunday morning of injuries sustained Saturday night about 7 
o’clock when struck by an automobile.  Mr. Holt was in the act of getting in 
the automobile.  Mr. Holt was in the act of getting in the automobile of 
Franklin Whitfield of the Suffolk highway near the Hygeia Ice Corporation’s 
plant when he was struck by a car driven by Frank Myrick, local Negro 
insurance agent, his skull being badly fractured at its base, Warren Kitchen 
and William Duffy of the Hygeia Ice plant bringing the injured man to the 
hospital where he died about 3:30 o’clock a.m.

   Benjamin Leigh Holt was born in Mecklenburg County, Va., near Clarksville 
October 13, 1871, the son of the late Benjamin Watkins Leigh Holt and Mrs. 
Cornelia Overby Holt.  He attended V.P.I. and the Eastman Business College, 
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.  Coming to Franklin November 22, 1899, he began employment 
with the Camp Manufacturing Company and had been paymaster of the company for 
almost all of that period, giving faithful and efficient service for 39 years. 
He was active in the affairs of the Franklin Baptist Church and Sunday school, 
serving as secretary-treasurer of the Sunday school for about 22 years, and he 
had been member of the Board of Deacons of the church for several years under 
the rotation system used by that church.  Mr. Holt was an upright, 
conscientious man in all of the relations of life, intensely loyal to his 
business and church.  He was in every respect an exemplary citizen, highly 
esteemed by all who knew him.

   In 1905, he married Miss Rosa Gay, who survives him with one son, Douglas 
Leigh Holt of Chattanooga, Tenn.; by two nieces, Miss Antoinette Parker of 
this town and Mrs. S.F. Winiker of Danville, who made their homes with Mr. and 
Mrs. Holt for many years; two nephews, Joe Bynum Gay, Jr. of Franklin and Holt 
Overby Fleetwood of Washington.

    Funeral services were conducted from the Franklin Baptist Church Tuesday 
morning at 11 o’clock by his pastor, Rev. R.D. Stephenson, in the presence of 
an assembly filling the church, the floral tributes being unusually numerous 
and beautiful.  Burial was made in Poplar Spring Cemetery here, the 
pallbearers being: active, Jack Baird, Edgar B. Jackson, Geo. H. Parker, J.J. 
Finley, Jr., Joe Gay Bryant, Frank R. Day, R.J. Tucker, Jas. L. Camp, Jr.; 
honorary, W.H. Pierce, George Watkins, D.T. Prince, G.G. McCann, B.R. 
Daughtrey, D.C. Gillette, Jr.


Benjamin Leigh HOLT, Camp Manufacturing Co. paymaster, 
b. 13 Oct 1871, Mecklenburg Co., struck by car, d. 3 Jul 1938, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 58*), Franklin, 
   5 Jul 1938, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), July 5, 1938, p. 8; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 8, 1938, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 7, 1951), 
   with their marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h430r1ob.txt 


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