Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lankford, George D., 1938 

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GEORGE DENNIS LANKFORD

   Funeral services were held here Sunday afternoon for George Dennis Lankford 
of Jacksonville, Florida, who died in that city after a brief illness.  Mr. 
Lankford, a native and former resident of Franklin, was 62 years of age, the 
son of the late James Irvin and Mrs. Sarah Barnes Lankford of this community, 
and is survived by his wife, Mrs. Catherine Lankford of Grand Rapids, Mich.; 
three brothers, W.H., S.W. and Robert I. Lankford; three sisters, Mrs. J.L. 
Eley, Sr., Mrs. E.L. Vaughan and Mrs. Hunter Darden, all of Franklin, besides 
a large family connection.

   Funeral rites were held from the home of his sister, Mrs. J.L. Eley, Sr., 
in Norfleet Street Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock conducted by Rev. R.D. 
Stephenson, assisted by Rev. Floyd P. Davis of Sycamore Church.  Burial was 
made in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the pallbearers being nephews of Mr. Lankford: 
Irvin, Hudson, and Sam Lankford, Jr., John L. Eley, Jr., Clyde and Jasper 
Eley, Hunter Darden, Jr. and Jesse Frank Vaughan.


George Dennis LANKFORD, Franklin native, d. Jacksonville, FL, age 62, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery*, Franklin, 4 Dec 1938, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 9, 1938 

*Unmarked.  Added plot of bro William - Section 1, Plot 72A. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Their brother Samuel is buried in Annex 2, Section A, Plot 6: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 

Their parents & 2 other brothers are buried in 
   Sycamore Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 3, Plot 25 & Row 2, Plot 20). 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV - 34-36): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 


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