Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Overman, Gideon D. Sr., 1957 

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GIDEON DAVID OVERMAN, SR.

   Gideon David Overman, Sr., 76, a former resident of Franklin, died Tuesday, 
October 22, at 5:55 p.m. in a Norfolk Hospital after a long illness.

   A native of Wayne County, N.C., he had also lived in Holland and Courtland. 
He had been a resident of Norfolk for 12 years, residing with his son, Gideon 
D. Overman, Jr., at 2108 Willowood Drive.

   Mr. Overman was a retired section foreman with the Southern Railway and 
Seaboard Air Line Railroad with 45 years of service.

   He was the husband of the late Mrs. Ella Mae Yates Overman, and the son of 
the late Joseph R. and Mrs. Julia Arminto Cotton Overman.  He was a member of 
Epworth Methodist Church and of its Wesleymen Bible Class.  He was also a 
member of the Courtland Lodge 85, A.F. & A.M.

   Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Fred R. Moore of Fountain, N.C., Mrs. 
I. Kelly Howell of Portsmouth, and Mrs. N.T. Duck of Franklin; two sons, 
Gideon D. Overman, Jr., of Norfolk and Aubrey Yates Overman of Hertford, 
Conn.; two grandchildren: Mrs. Robert Branch of Bethel, N.C., and Miss Susan 
Elizabeth Duck of Franklin, and a number of nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. at the Cox 
Funeral Home, Norfolk, by Rev. James W. Rush, associate pastor of Epworth 
Methodist Church, and Rev. Ernest H. Overman, pastor of Hyde Park Freewill 
Baptist Church.  Burial was in Riverside Cemetery, Courtland.


Gideon David OVERMAN, Sr., of Norfolk, retired R.R. section foreman, 
formerly of Franklin, Holland, & Courtland, 
Wayne Co., NC native, d. 22 Oct 1957, Norfolk, age 76, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 2*), Courtland, 
   24 Oct 1957, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 24, 1957, Sect. I, p. 5 

Additional information: 

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

After his first wife died, Gideon remarried, to Ruth (BARNES; widow of 
   Roderick) WILLIAMS.  Her (donated 1949) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/o165r1ob.txt 

Ruth is buried with her first husband in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins - 
   Annex 1, Section A, Plot 9.  SCHS Cemetery Project, Beechwood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 


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