Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Emmette R., 1971 

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EMMETTE ROBERTSON JOHNSON 

   A funeral service for Emmette Robertson Johnson, 73, of Courtland, was 
held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. 
Harry W. Bunch and the Rev. Bobby P. Tyson.

   Burial was in Southampton Memorial Park.

   Pallbearers were Harold Babb Sr., E.B. Carter Sr., Lloyd Story, J.C. 
Johnson Jr., Walter Bishop, Ben Bryant, Delbert Whitehead and Linwood Lee 
Johnson.

   A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Mrs. Rushie Ritter 
Johnson and a son of Henry and Mrs. [Mary Ella] Hedgepeth Johnson.

   He was a retired farmer and a member of Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a son, Emmette Johnson Jr., three 
daughters, Mrs. Mary Nell Babb of Courtland, Mrs. Carolyn J. Thorpe of 
Newsoms, and Mrs. Janet Cannan of Avon, Conn.; three sisters, Mrs. Lillian 
Spencer of Hamlet, N.C., Mrs. Mamie Baker and Mrs. Mattie Gilliam of Handsom; 
and 11 grandchildren.


Emmette Robertson JOHNSON, of Courtland, retired farmer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 9 May 1971, age 73, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Devotion I, Plot 22*), 11 May 1971, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 13, 1971, p. 6 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Southampton Memorial Park list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 

His parents & maternal grandparents are buried in the 
   HEDGEPETH-JOHNSON family cemetery on Nottoway Farms Dr. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 5 (V-13): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol5.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 25, 1929), 
   with her marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525m6ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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