Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, L. Edward, 1945 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ LITTLEBERRY EDWARD JOHNSON Funeral services for Littlebury [sic; Littleberry] Edward Johnson, 60, farmer of Murfreesboro, were held January 18 from the Boykins Baptist Church, Boykins, Va., with Dr. R.H. Helton officiating. Burial was in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins. Johnson, a native of Southampton County, Virginia, died last Wednesday morning with a heart attack. He was a member of Boykins Baptist Church. Surviving are two brothers, John P. Johnson and J.B. Johnson of Boykins, Va., and one sister, Mrs. P.L. Mathews of Murfreesboro. Active pallbearers were G.B. Storey, J.S. Copeland, S.J. Wilson, H.T. Smith, W.H. Powell, Sr., and J.W. Holland. Littleberry Edward "Eddie" JOHNSON, farmer, b. 19 Jan 1884*, Southampton Co., d. 17 Jan 1936, Murfreesboro Twp., Hertford Co., NC, interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 1, Sect. H, Plot 4*), Boykins, 18 Jan 1936, "The Herald" (NC), Sat., Jan. 25, 1936, p. 12 *Additional information: Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Beechwood list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt A photo of his gravestone - added by Judy McKinley - is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #65321194. D.Cert. 5080 (Hertford #4) The 1900 Census - Boykins Dist., Southampton Co. - gives b. Mar 1883. His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 6, 1942, p. 3) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525a12o.txt His parents, John Wesley & Martha Jane (SMITH) JOHNSON, are buried in a JOHNSON family cemetery, Fullers Mill Rd., near Boykins. SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (MV-VIII-5): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 14, 1933, p. 1) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525m5ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by William J. DelMonte (jazzzybill@yahoo.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525e21o.txt