Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jernigan, Edward C., 1949 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ EDWARD CROSS JERNIGAN Edward Cross Jernigan, 73, Franklin carpenter residing on Walnut Street, died Wednesday morning, November 9, after suffering a heart attack. Mr. Jernigan was the husband of Cora Hayes Jernigan of Franklin, and son of the late Richard Henry and Maggie Jernigan of Gates County, N.C. He was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and its Bruner Bible Class and of the Woodmen of the World. Besides his wife he is survived by a granddaughter, Mrs. Mildred Jernigan Brinkley of Suffolk; a sister, Mrs. Ted Tomlin of Suffolk; and two brothers, Henry Jernigan of Murfreesboro, N.C. and B.L. Jernigan of Courtland. Funeral services for Mr. Jernigan will be conducted from the residence this (Friday) afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. Randolph L. Gregory and Rev. R.D. Stephenson, followed by interment in Poplar Spring Cemetery. The pallbearers will be G.C. Duck, Jesse McClenny, Sam Mitchell, Maxie Day, William Duck, George Watkins, R.D. Rideout and R.L. Wellons. Edward "Eddie" Cross JERNIGAN, of Franklin, carpenter, Gates Co., NC native?, d. 9 Nov 1949, age 73, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 40A*), Franklin, 11 Nov 1949, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 11, 1949, p. 4 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 12, 1952, p. 4) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j652c1ob.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/j652e1ob.txt