Southampton-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Presson, Luther J., 1939 

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LUTHER JOSHUA PRESSON 

PRESSON FUNERAL TO BE HELD TODAY

   WAKEFIELD - Funeral services for L.J. Presson, 67, Mayor of Dendron, will 
be held at the home in Dendron at 2:30 P.M. Thursday, with interment in the 
Rocky Hock Cemetery.  The Rev. B.H. Watkins, pastor of the Wakefield Christian 
Church, will be in charge of the services, with the Rev. Robert H. Humphrey, 
pastor of the Rocky Hock Methodist Church, assisting.

   Mayor Presson had been in failing health for some time.  He died Tuesday 
in a Richmond hospital.  He was a merchant, former member of the town council, 
a member of the Dendron Christian Church and active in civic and church 
affairs.

   He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Alice Cobb of Dendron, and Miss 
Bessie Lee Presson, Washington; one grandchild; one brother, J. Henley Presson 
of Wakefield, and one sister, Mrs. W.H. Joyner of Courtland.


Luther Joshua PRESSON, Mayor of Dendron, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 4 Apr 1939, Richmond, age 67, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 64*), Surry Co., 
   6 Apr 1939, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Apr. 6, 1939, p. 12 

*Rocky Hock list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/cemeteries/rockyhk.txt 

His father is marked in Plot 37. 

Photos of Luther's grave markers are posted with Find a Grave Memorial 
   #137093687. 

Luther & "Nannie" Nancy Lelia Virginia HARGRAVE (1873 - 1933) m. 25 May 1898. 
   Surry Co. M.Reg. 1898 #34 gives his parents as Joseph J. & Alice. 

D.Cert. 8245 (Richmond #743) gives his parents as Joel PRESSON & Alice BOOTHE. 

His father, Junius Joel PRESSON (1846 - 1906), was a Confederate veteran, 
   having served as a private in the Surry Light Artillery.  The application 
   to the War Department for a gravestone gives Joel Junius - edited to 
   Joel J.  He was buried in a private cemetery near Ivor.  His service 
   record is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/military/civilwar/cwvets_so.txt 

He 1m. Martha A. BOOTH, 7 Mar 1871 in Sussex Co. 
   (Ancestry.com VA Select Marriages 1785 - 1940, citing p. 12 #18) 

Widowed, he 2m. Ellen Frances HARGROVE, daughter of Samuel & Matilda 
   HARGROVE/HARGRAVE, 4 Nov 1884 in Sussex Co.  (Surry Co. #74) 

His parents, Joshua & Lucy Caroline (HOLLAMAN/HOLLEMAN/HOLLIMAN) PRESSON. 
   m. 17 Sep 1829. (Southampton Co. M.Reg. pp. 694) 


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