Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....McClenny, Montross G., 1932 

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MONTROSS GRAHAM McCLENNY

M. G. M’CLENNY FALLS DEAD ON MAIN STREET

   M.G. McClenny, well-known farmer of the Franklin community, died suddenly 
Monday morning while walking along Main Street.  Mr. McClenny had been 
suffering with a weakened heart for some months and stated to a passerby just 
a moment before his collapse that his heart was paining him.  Friends took him 
to Raiford Hospital just across the street, but death was practically 
instantaneous.

   Montrose* Graham McClenny, or "Bug" McClenny as his friends knew and called 
him, had made his home in the community for many years where he was esteemed 
as an honorable citizen, an enterprising farmer, interested in everything 
looking to the welfare of his neighborhood and leading an exemplary life.  He 
was a consistent member of the Franklin Baptist Church and of the Bruner Bible 
Class, having the unusual record of not missing Sunday school at any time for 
17 or more years.

   He was in his 62nd year and is survived by his wife, who was Miss Leora 
Johnson of the Western Branch community in Nansemond County**; by three sons, 
Jesse and Letcher McClenny of Franklin and Bradford McClenny of Lawrenceville; 
two daughters, Mrs. J.R. Peele of Lewiston, N.C., and Miss Clarys McClenny of 
Franklin; one brother, John McClenny of Franklin; three sister, Mrs. Harry 
Whitfield, Mrs. O.F. Daughter and Mrs. Walter Daughtrey of Portsmouth, besides 
several grandchildren and a large family connection.

   Funeral services were conducted from the Franklin Baptist Church Tuesday 
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by the Pastor, R.D. Stephenson, assisted by the Rev. 
Roscoe Jones of High Street M.E. Church.  Favorite hymns were used by the 
church choir, and the pallbearers were: J.R. Boyette, J. Edgar Weede, J.F. 
Bryant, Jr., Geo. H. Parker, Roger I. Beale, W.M. Bradshaw, Joe Bynum Gay and 
J.W. Beale.  The honorary bearers were the member of the Bruner Bible Class, 
about 100 in number.  Interment was made in Poplar Spring Cemetery here.


Montross Graham "Bug" McCLENNY, Franklin farmer, 
d. 23 Nov 1932, Franklin, age 62, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 17*), Franklin, 
   25 Nov 1932, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 25, 1932, p. 1 

*Cemetery list gives name as Montross, rather than Montrose. 
 Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Additional information: 

**His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 18, 1954) gives her as the 
   daughter of Jesse and Sophie (ROBERTS) JOHNSON of Isle of Wight Co., 
   rather than Nansemond Co.  The obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m245l1ob.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 2, 1920, p. 6), with his parents' 
   marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m245j1ob.txt 

His parents are buried in Poplar Spring, Section 2, Plot 52A: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 


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