Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, James A., 1943 

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JAMES ARCHIBALD JOHNSON

   Funeral rites were held Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock for James Archibald 
Johnson, who died Saturday morning, at his home near Franklin with burial 
following in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  Services were conducted by his pastor, 
the Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the Baptist Church, assisted by the Rev. Harry 
Wardell Backhus, III, of the Methodist Church, and the active bearers were: 
George Watkins, E.A. Davis, R.C. Branch, Walter M. Beale, Prof. B.T. Watkins, 
S.W. Rawls, Tyler Edwards and Guy C. Hill of Como.

   Mr. Johnson, 65 years of age, was born in what is now Scotland County, 
N.C., his ancestry being from a long and distinguished line of Scotch pioneers 
who settled that section of North Carolina.  Moving to Franklin about 35 years 
ago, he had lived an unusually exemplary life among his fellowmen, being 
engaged in the cotton business here for a number of years with the late J.F. 
Bryant, Jr., and was for many years a valued deacon of the Franklin Baptist 
Church.  He was the son of the late William Johnson and Miss Sallie Flowers 
Johnson, and two of his uncles had made throughout their long and useful lives 
especially worth-while contributions to the religious life of North Carolina, 
Dr. Livingston Johnson as Editor of the Biblical Recorder, Baptist organ of 
that State, and Archibald Johnson as Editor of charity and Children, the paper 
of the North Carolina Baptist Orphanage.

   He is survived by his wife, who was before her marriage Miss Lemma Garrett 
of Cumberland County, Va.; two sons, James A. Johnson, Jr., of Richmond and 
Billy Johnson of Franklin; two daughters, Miss Sarah Elizabeth Johnson and 
Mary Winston Johnson of Franklin; three sisters, Mrs. George W. Livermon of 
Philadelphia, Miss Caroline V. Johnson of Franklin and Mrs. W. Frank Robertson 
of Norfolk; besides a large circle of friends, especially among the member of 
the Camp P.D. Hunt Club, of which Mr. Johnson had been an enthusiastic member 
for many years.


James Archibald JOHNSON (Sr.), in cotton business, 
b. Richmond Co. [now Scotland Co.], NC, 
d. 19 Jun 1943, at home, near Franklin, age 65, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 88A*), Franklin, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 25, 1943, p. 4 

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

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 12, 1930, p. 5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525s5ob.txt 

His widow's 1956 obits are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525l10o.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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