Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....James, Joshua C., 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Virginia News Items. [...] Joshua C. James, an old citizen of Southampton county, and a well-known hotel-keeper at Branchville, died Thursday night from an attack of paralysis. [...] Joshua C. JAMES, Branchville hotel-keeper, d. 7 Dec 1893, age ca. 47, interred in Person's Methodist Church Cemetery*, "The Richmond (VA) Dispatch," Sat., Dec. 9, 1893 (No. 13), p. 2, col. 3 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-61): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt Additional information: The (recopied) Southampton Co. Death Records (1853-1890) give the following: James, J.C., d. 7 Dec 1893, age 47, sn/o B. & S.A. James {orig.p. 6 #28} (Southampton Co. Death Records {1853-1890}, p. 258) Joshua C. James, 38, Single, b. & res. Southampton, sn/o James and Sarah M. James, Merchant Arline Person, 19, Single, b. & res. Southampton, dt/o Peter & Ada P. Person m.lic. 20 Oct 1884 by clerk J.B. Prince m. 23 Oct 1884 Southampton Co., by Geo. Rives (Southampton Co. MB5:328) He appears in the 1850 Census (St Luke's P'sh, p. 253a, dwl/fam 296), age 4 (b, NC), with mother Sarah M. James (29)., in a mixed HARRISON/JAMES household. Transcript by Col. P.J. Turner posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/census/1850/pg0252b.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com) [line breaks mine] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j520j3ob.txt