Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Moffett, James L., 1941 

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JAMES L. MOFFETT

   James L. Moffett, 53, a resident of the Burdette community and of 
Washington, D.C. died instantly Monday after falling 15 stories from 
the naval medical center building at Bethesda, Md., on which he was 
working.  Mr. Moffett came to Virginia from Port Glasgow, Scotland, 
and had made his home at Burdette for 20 years.

   He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite No. 455, Glasgow, 
his father having been one of the original members of the lodge and a 
past grandmaster.  Mr. Moffett also was a World War veteran as a member 
of the Scottish troops.  He was the son of the late John and Annie Lang 
Moffett, of Port Glasgow.

   Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Margaret Brown Moffett; two sons, Private 
Jack Moffett, Fort Walters, Texas and William Gemmel  Moffett of Burdette; 
one brother, William Gemmel Moffett, Detroit, and three sisters, Mrs. Eddie 
McFarlen, Detroit; Mrs. Thomas Hastle, Greenock, Scotland, and Mrs. Alexa 
Wilson, of California.

   Services were conducted Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock by the Rev. 
John P. Batkins of Beaver Dam Baptist Church and the Rev. R.D. Stephenson 
of Franklin at the home, burial being made in the family cemetery nearby. 
The casket was covered with a pall of white carnations and Easter lilies.

   Pallbearers were William Castels, Fred Thomas, Fred Conners, James 
Pheiffer, Arthur Doyle and John Riddler, all of Washington.


[James Lang MOFFETT, of Burdette & Washington, DC, WW-I veteran, 
 native of Port Glasgow, Scotland, 
 fell to death at work, 21 Apr 1941, Bethesda, MD, age 53, 
 interred in the BARHAM family cemetery*, near Burdette, 24 Apr 1941, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 25, 1941] 

[*located on Line Pine Rd. (Rt. 629), about ¼ mile from Black Creek Rd. 
   (Rt. 635).  Marker gives surname as "MOFFAT." 
  Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, 
     Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 6 (VI-17): 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol6.txt] 

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