Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, James S. Sr., 1981 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JAMES SAMUEL JOHNSON SR. COURTLAND - A funeral service for James Samuel Johnson Sr., 72, was held Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in Riverside Cemetery by the Revs. Edmund Ellis and Wilson Conwell. Wright Funeral Home was in charge. Johnson died Sunday in Southampton Memorial Hospital. A native of Edgecombe County, N.C., he was a retired farmer. He was a member of Courtland Baptist Church. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Linda J. Conwell of Courtland and Mrs. Owedia Miller of Chesapeake; two sons, Robert Ernie Johnson of Norfolk and J. Samuel Johnson Jr. of Richmond; five sisters, Mrs. Debbie Wilkins, Mrs. Susie Howell, Mrs. Rountree, Mrs. Annie Mae Britt and Mrs. Linwood Pearce, all of Holland Station, Suffolk, and Mrs. Minnie Hill of Florida; a brother, Wade S. Johnson of Holland; and nine grandchildren. James Samuel JOHNSON, Sr., retired farmer, Edgecombe Co., NC native, d. 23 Aug 1981, Franklin, age 72, interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section II, Plot 9*), Courtland, 25 Aug 1981, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 27, 1981 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Riverside list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525j14o.txt