Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Philip A., 1952 

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PHILIP ADOLPHUS JONES

   Philip A. Jones, 79, a retired farmer of Nansemond County, died in Louise 
Obici Hospital, Suffolk, on Sunday night, January 20, after an illness of a 
few weeks.  He was the son of the late Rev. James E. Jones and Eugenia Gardner 
Jones of South Quay.

   In 1905 Mr. Jones married Miss Ruby Parker of Murfreesboro, N.C., who 
survives him.  A member of the South Quay Baptist Church, he was prominent in 
Nansemond County affairs and was for many years a member of the county 
Democratic committee and the School Electoral Board.  He was a charter member 
of Ruritan National and of its mother club in Holland.

    Besides his wife he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Lawrence E. Holland 
of South Quay; [her] three children, Philip Parker, Eugene Emmett and Carl 
Clay Holland, all of South Quay; and one sister, Mrs. Garrie Jones Rawls, also 
of South Quay.

   Funeral services for Mr. Jones were held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at 
the South Quay Baptist Church.  Officiating were Revs. R.D. Stephenson and 
J.C. Lanning.  Interment was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the active pallbearers 
being Rowland Clark, J. Frank Culpepper, H.G. Gardner, E.J. Howell, James 
Rawls, Garland Saunders, H.P. Saunders, H.V. White.


Philip Adolphus JONES, retired Nansemond Co. farmer, 
d. 20 Jan 1952, Suffolk, age 79, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 81A*), Franklin, 
   22 Jan 1952, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 25, 1952, p. 2 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

His widow's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," June 27, 1964, p. 4) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j520r6ob.txt 


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