Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Newsome, Thomas E., 1970 

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THOMAS E. NEWSOM 

   A funeral service for Thomas E. Newsom will be held today at 2:30 p.m. in 
the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home Chapel in Franklin. Rev. Ira D. 
Hudgins will conduct the services.

   Burial will be in the Beaver Dam Baptist Church cemetery.

   Pallbearers will be Joe Whitley, James Rogers, Clyde Burgess, Herbert Booth, 
Wade Parker, John Boyette, and Albert Boyette.

   Newsoms, 79, died Tuesday afternoon in Southampton Memorial Hospital.

   A native of Southampton County, he was a son of Simon E. and Mrs. Isabelle 
Fowler Newsom and the husband of Mrs. Ida West Newsom.

   He was a member of Franklin Baptist Church.

   Besides his wife, he is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Beatrice Whitley 
and Mrs. Jane Ellis of Franklin, Mrs. Sallie Mae Bittle of Holland, Mrs. Mary 
Catherine Babb of Petersburg, and Mrs. Peggy Powell of Lansing, Mich.; two 
sons, Thomas W. Newsom of Suffolk and James E. Newsom of Chesterfield; three 
sisters, Mrs. Minnie Capps of Franklin, Mrs. T.A. Jones of Suffolk, and Miss 
Eva Newsom of Holland; 30 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.


Thomas E. NEWSOME*, Southampton Co. native, d. 18 Aug 1970, Franklin, age 79, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Franklin, 20 Aug 1970, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 20, 1970 

*His grave reads NEWSOME. 
   Beaver Dam list (BD-59), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

His parents used NEWSOM.  They are buried in Blackjack Oak Cemetery, on 
   Whitley Branch Rd. on the Southampton-NC line. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-37): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt 


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