Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Grace B. Sledge, 1948 

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GRACE BINFORD SLEDGE JOHNSON

   Mrs. Grace B. Johnson, widow of B. Frank Johnson, died on Monday morning, 
February 23, at her home on Chestnut Street, Franklin, after several years of 
failing health.  At the time of her death she was 79 years of age.

   Mrs. Johnson was a daughter of the late Benjamin F. and Patricia Johnston 
Sledge of Halifax County, N.C., moving many years ago to Franklin, where she 
was a member of the High Street Methodist Church.

   Surviving her are two nieces, Dr. Pattie J. Groves of South Hadley, Mass., 
and Mrs. J.H. Bacon of Littleton, N.C.; one nephew, Wesley Grovers, of South 
Hadley, Mass.; and two half-sisters, Mrs. E.L. Utley of Norfolk and Mrs. 
Charlie Underwood of Richmond.

   Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 o’clock, Wednesday afternoon from 
the Holland Funeral Home, her pastor, Rev. E.W. Aaron officiating.  Interment 
was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the pallbearers being W.B. Simpson, Dr. James 
P. Broaddus, J.C. Williams, L.A. Whitley, W.B. Hasting, W.F. Keeter, Sr., and 
E.H. Coggsdale.


Grace Binford (SLEDGE; Mrs. B. Frank) JOHNSON, 
Halifax Co., NC native, d. 23 Feb 1948, at home, Franklin, age 79, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 69A*), Franklin, 
   25 Feb 1948, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 27, 1948, p. 10 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 


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