Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Richard W., 1943 

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RICHARD WILBUR JOHNSON

   Richard Wilbur Johnson, aged 58, farmer of the Newsoms community, died at 
his home Monday afternoon, climaxing an illness of over four years.  He was 
the husband of Mrs. Berta Rawls Johnson and son of the late John J. and Nettie 
Carter Johnson of North Carolina.  He was a member of Buckhorn Baptist Church, 
Como, N.C.

   Besides his wife he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Tommie Drake and 
Mrs. Jesse Vick of Newsoms and Mrs. Linwood Simms of Franklin; one sons, 
Richard W. Johnson, Jr. of Newsoms; two brothers, John Edward Johnson of 
Newsoms and Henry Lee Johnson of Winton, N.C.; three sisters, Mrs. Ellen 
Cullins and Mrs. Willie Moore of Roanoke Rapids and Mrs. Eula Barham of 
Richmond.

   Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the residence at 3 o’clock 
by the Rev. C.P. Cleveland of Newsoms, with interment in the family cemetery 
near Como.  Pallbearers were Thomas, Ray, Cecil and William Johnson, Aubrey 
Story, William and John Vick and Amos Porter.


[Richard Wilbur JOHNSON, farmer, d. 8 Nov 1943, at home, Newsoms, age 58, 
 interred in Blackjack Oak Cemetery*, 9 Nov 1943, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 12, 1943] 

[*located on Whitley Branch Rd. (Rt. 685), near the NC line; 
 Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, 
    Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-37): 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt] 

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