Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Kitchen, John H., 1921 

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JOHN HINTON KITCHEN 

       JOHN H. KITCHEN 

  Mr. John H. Kitchen, son of the late J.J. [sic; J.G.*] Kitchen and Elizabeth 
A. Kitchen of Sussex county, died at his home in Courtland, Sunday morning, 
July 17th, at 8:30 o'clock a.m., in the 53rd year of his age, after a brief 
illness of only a few days. 

  The deceased was a member of the Courtland Baptist Church, having united 
with this church when he first came to our town to live about 31 years ago. 
He was married in June 1897 to Miss Blanche Gibson Williams of this place. 
He was a good husband, a kind and loving father and numbered a host of friends 
among his townsmen. 

  The funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon from the residence by 
Rev. J.R. Johnson, pastor of the deceased, the Rev. Winfield Shiers of the 
Episcopal Church assisting.  Interment followed in the family plot in 
Riverside Cemetery, where many beautiful floral designs were placed upon the 
grave by loved ones and friends who had assembled to pay their last tribute of 
respect. 

  The following were pallbearers: active, W.N. Thornton, J.E. Whitfield, W.J. 
Briggs, A.E. Briggs, P.B. Davis, W.F. Hunter, R.M. Knight, Willie Yates and 
R.S. Yates; honorary, D.T. Prince, C.A. Bell, S.R. Nicholson, Jno. N. Sebrell, 
Sr., W.J. Sebrell, C.W. Richardson, E.P. Westbrook, B.B. Joyner, E. Whitfield, 
B.E. Livesay, Jr., H.B. McLemore, Dr. W.T. McLemore, J.W. Edwards, C.W. 
Williams, B.B. Rogers, C.W. Davis, G.W. Reese, L.M. Manry, W.J. Story, L.W. 
McGrath, Ezra W. Davis, J. Ben Davis, H.C. Edwards, W.E. Darden, Jas. T. 
Gillette, C.W. Parker, H.A. Gillette, Dr. E.F. Reese, C.L. Grizzard, Floyd 
Beale, Judson Branch, W.T. Pittman and J.W. Pulley. 

  The deceased is survived by his wife; four daughters, Mabel, Irene, Bessie 
and Blanche Gibson Kitchen; one son, John Hinton Kitchen, Jr., of this place, 
and four sisters, Mrs. Jennie Hawkins, Mrs. John Riddle, Miss Gertie Kitchen 
and Miss Ettie Kitchen, and one brother, Mr. C.G. Kitchen, all of Sussex 
county. 


John Hinton KITCHEN, merchant, 
b. 26 Nov 1868*, Southampton Co., d. 17 Jul 1921, at home, Courtland, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 24*), Courtland, 
   18 Jul 1921, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 16, No. 41, Fri., July 29, 1921, p. 5 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

Photos of his gravestone - added by Speaker for the Dead & Budjr - 
   are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #32339390. 

D.Cert. 16560 (Jerusalem #12) gives b. 26 Nov 1866, son of John D. KITCHEN; 
   the informant was his daughter Mabel. 

His father John German KITCHEN was a Confederate veteran, having served as a 
   private in Co. B, 9th VA Infantry; he d. in 1902 in Sussex Co. 

His mother Elizabeth Ann Delilah (RAIFORD) KITCHEN applied for a Confederate 
   widow's pension 11 Oct 1912; d. 1 Jan 1920, Yale, and was buried in 
   Sussex Co. 

His wife's obit ("Virginian-Pilot & Norfolk Landmark," Mar. 18, 1924, p. 13) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/k325b2ob.txt 


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