Southampton County-Virginia Beach City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Powers, Cornelius H., 1944 

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CORNELIUS HARRISON POWERS

   Cornelius Harrison Powers died in his 71st year at his home in Sedley on 
May 14, after an illness of two years.  He was the son of the late John and 
Mary Jane Powers of Princess Ann County and the husband of Mrs. Mae Thomas 
Powers.

   Mr. Powers was a valued employee of the Virginian Railway until he was 
forces to retire on account of ill health.  He was a member of the Sedley 
Baptist Church and a man of such character and personality to win for himself 
a host of friends.

   Besides his wife he is survived by seven daughters, Miss Frances, Thelma 
and Evelyn Powers and Mrs. Albert Whitley of Sedley, Mrs. Churchill G. Glover 
of Franklin, Mrs. Thomas Harrup of Joyner and Mrs. John Manry of Newport News 
and by three sons, Lewis, Stanley Burton and Floyd of Sedley and one brother, 
Shelton Powers, of Suffolk.

   Funeral services were held at the Sedley Baptist Church on Tuesday afternoon 
at four-thirty o’clock and were conducted by Rev. W.B. Watson and Rev. P. D. 
White.  The hymns, "Abide with Me," "The Old Rugged Cross," were sung by the 
choir.  "Haven of Rest" was sung by Miss Ethel Fenimore and Mrs. J.D. Owen. 
"The Last Mile" was read by Rev. P.D. White.

   There were many lovely tributes paid in flowers, the casket being covered 
with a blanket of lilies and carnations.  The active pallbearers were: W.R. 
Floyd, Linwood Price, George Hubbard, Ryland, Jesse and James Gray.  Honorary 
bearers were friends of the family.  Interment was made in Rosemont Cemetery.


[Cornelius Harrison POWERS, retired from the Virginian R.R., 
 Princess Ann Co. native?, d. 14 May 1944, at home, Sedley, age 71, 
 interred in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley, 16 May 1944, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 19, 1944] 

[*Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, 
     Rosemont list (S-55): 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt] 

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