Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lankford, Rev. William E., 1922 

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WILLIAM E. LANKFORD

   Rev. William E. Lankford, a prominent Baptist minister of this county, died 
at his home in Drewryville Tuesday night, December 5, in his sixty-fifth year. 
He had been in ill health for any months and was practically blind for the 
last two years of his life.  Mr. Lankford had been in the ministry for 
eighteen years, the greater part of this service being given to the Baptist 
churches at Drewryville, Capron, Adams Grove, and Hebron, all in this county, 
where he numbered a large circle of friends who admired him for his Godly 
qualities and his faithfulness to the Master in all things.

   He was a native of Franklin County, N.C., a son of the late Menalcus 
Lankford, who lived in this county for many years, and a brother of Mrs. L.R. 
Edwards of Franklin and of the late Dr. Livius Lankford of Norfolk.  He is 
survived by his widow and by two children, McClenny and Janice Lankford.

   Funeral services were conducted from Thomas Memorial Church, Drewryville, 
Wednesday, by Rev. C.T. Taylor of Emporia and interment was made in the family 
plot in the cemetery at Suffolk, with Masonic rites at the grave.


Rev. William Eley LANKFORD, Baptist minister, 
b. 2 Oct 1852, Franklinton, Franklin Co., NC, 
d. 5 Dec 1922, at home, Drewryville, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block D, Lot 34*), Suffolk, 10 Dec 1922, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 8, 1922, p. 1 

*His parents & maternal grandparents are buried in the same lot. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_j.txt 

His widow, [Cecelia] Pearl (COX) LANKFORD (1884-1963), and his nephew 
   Menalcus (1883-1937), son of his brother Livius, are buried in 
   Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk. 
   Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Cemeteries: 
   http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/norfolkcitycem.html 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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