Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hines, Samuel B., 1857 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ SAMUEL BLOW HINES 1788 - 01/05/1857 Departed this life, in the county of Southampton, on the 5th of January 1857, after a short illness, Col. Samuel B. Hines, in the 69th year of his age. To many of his friends at a distance, who, in times gone by have gathered at his hospitable board, this notice will being a sigh of regret for the departure of another old Virginia gentlemen, a breaking of another of those golden links that connect us so pleasantly with the past. Having reached the allotted period of human life, suddenly, like mellowed fruit, he fell to his mother earth, and rendered up his soul to Him who gave it. [Col. Samuel Blow HINES, d. 5 Jan 1857, age 69, interred in Poplar Grove Cemetery, donated obit, newspaper unknown, circa Jan 1857] [obit donated by Jeffrey A. Hines (JAHines@cox.net), file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager.] [Courtesy of the Southampton Historical Society]