Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, L. Ross, 1954 

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LEONIDAS ROSS JONES

ROSS JONES BURIED ON CHRISTMAS EVE

   Funeral services for Leonidas Ross Jones, 84, of Franklin, who died in 
Raiford Memorial Hospital on Wednesday night, December 22, were conducted 
at the Congregational Christian Church on Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock. 
Officiating were Rev. Harvey L. Carnes, pastor of the church, and Dr. J.G. 
Truitt, superintendent of the Christian Orphanage at Elon College, N.C.

   Interment was in the family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  Pallbearers 
were J. Letcher Eley, Dr. Darden W. Jones, Emerson P. Jones, J. Maxwell 
Jones, Jr., W. Tall Jones, William Thomas Jones, E.L. Scott and G. Carl 
Steinhardt.  All of the pallbearers except the first and last named are 
nephews of the deceased.


Leonidas Rosier "Ross" JONES (Sr.), of Franklin, 
d. 22 Dec 1954, Franklin, age 84, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 63A*), Franklin, 
   24 Dec 1954, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 30, 1954, Section 1, p. 7 

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

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 25, 1946, p. 1) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j520m6ob.txt 


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