Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Porter, David T., 1943 

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DAVID THOMAS PORTER 

   David Thomas Porter, age 19, died Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the 
Roanoke Rapids Hospital.  He was the son of the late Fenton A. Porter and 
Mrs. E.C. Davis.  Besides his mother he is survived by the following brothers 
and sisters: B.R. Porter of Franklin, Mrs. David Kitchen of Franklin, Pfc. 
Leslie Porter of the U.S. Army, Mrs. H.F. Babb of Courtland, Mrs. Roger Drake 
of Franklin, and Ervin Porter of Courtland, also two half-brothers, Bobbie 
and Raymond Davis of Branchville.

   The body was brought to the Purviance Funeral Home in Boykins, funeral 
services being held at 4 p.m. Monday at the Newsoms Baptist Church with the 
Rev. C.P. Cleveland officiating, assisted by the Rev. Bailey Jones.  Music was 
furnished by the combined Newsoms and Branchville choirs.  Members of his high 
school class were flower bearers.

   Pallbearers were James and Thomas Coggsdale, Howard Simmons, Floyd and Paul 
Pope, Howard and Ben Babb and Calvin Davis.  Burial was in the Newsoms 
cemetery.


David Thomas PORTER, service station attendant, 
b. 21 Apr 1924, Isle of Wight Co., d. 11 Sep 1943, Roanoke Rapids, NC, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 13 Sep 1943, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 17, 1943, p. 9 

*His parents are also buried there. His widowed mother 3m. DAVIS, 4m. COLEMAN. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-17,52&53): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 147 (Roanoke Rapids #88). 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 13, 1981, p. 5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c455s1ob.txt 


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