Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....McKinstry, William J., 1921 

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WILLIAM J. McKINSTRY

   Mr. Wm. J. McKinstry died at his country home near Boykins Tuesday morning, 
September 6, after a brief illness of pneumonia.  He was a member of the 
Boykins Baptist Church, a true friend, a devote husband and a kind and loving 
father.  Mr. McKinstry was born in Philadelphia in 1849, moved to Virginia and 
was twice married in his early twenties.

   The funeral services were conducted from his home by Rev. L.R. Black of the 
Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. A.C. Jordan, in the absence of his pastor, 
Rev. H. P. Dalton.  Interment was made in Beechwood cemetery, where beautiful 
and profuse floral offerings were heaped upon the mound to attest the esteem 
and love in which he was held by sorrowing friends and loved ones.

   The pallbearers were: active, H.A. Moore, A.S. Francis, B.F. Britt, J.R. 
Person, H.V. Thornton, J.R. Hines, E.R. Bryant and T.H. Porter; honorary, W.A. 
Powell, E.H. Grizzard, H.G. Coleman, S.J. Myrick, J.D. Ferguson, W.H. Britt, 
A.L. Knight and J.M. Bland.

   In his going one of the happiest homes in our community is broken up, and 
our hearts with sympathy go out to those who are left.  To mourn their loss: 
his wife, Mrs. Rosa H. McKinstry; one son, W.F. McKinstry of Boykins; five 
daughters, Mrs. H.F. Night of Boykins, Mrs. B.N. Williams of Pope, Mrs. M.K. 
Edwards, of Rocky Mount, N.C.; Mrs. F.H. Cook and Mrs. E.G. Williams of 
Richmond, and one brother, Dr. J.J. McKinstry of Pottsville, Penn.


William John McKINSTRY, 
b. 1849, Philadelphia, PA, d. 6 Sep 1921, at home, near Boykins, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 1, Section G, Plot 9*), Boykins, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 16, 1921, p. 6 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Beechwood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 10, 1922, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m252r1ob.txt 


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