Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lankford, Robert I., 1940 

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ROBERT IRVIN LANKFORD

   Robert Irvin Lankford, 63, died this morning about 4 o’clock in Raiford 
Hospital, his death culminating a long illness.  He was the son of the late J. 
Irvin and Sarah Elizabeth Barnes Lankford.  He is survived by a daughter, Miss 
Jesse Mae Lankford of Holland; three sisters, Mrs. John L. Eley, Mrs. Maggie 
L. Vaughan and Mrs. Hunter Darden, all of Franklin or the community; two 
brothers, W.H. and S.W. Lankford of Franklin and a number of nieces and 
nephews.

   Services will be conducted from the residence of Mrs. Eley on Norfleet 
Street tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Franklin 
Baptist Church and the Rev. John B. Isom of Courtland Baptist Church. 
Interment will be in Sycamore Church cemetery near Franklin, nephews of the 
deceased to serve as pallbearers.


Robert Irvin LANKFORD, of Franklin, barber, 
b. 28 Nov 1878, Hertford Co., NC, d. 4 Oct 1940, Franklin, 
interred in Sycamore Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 2, Plot 20*), Oct 1940, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 4, 1940 

*Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-34): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

Birthdate from D.Cert. #24392 (Franklin #88). 

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 25, 1929) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/l521l2ob.txt 


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