Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Prince, David T. Jr., 1923 

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DAVID TILDEN PRINCE, JR.

DAVID T. PRINCE, JR. DIES AT WASHINGTON AND LEE

   David Tilden Prince, Jr., the only child of Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Prince of 
Franklin, died at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., Monday morning, 
March 19, following a brief illness of pneumonia, super-induced by influenza. 
Both parents had been with him at the University of several days and hopes were 
entertained for his recovery until last Friday when his condition took an 
unfavorable turn. Had he lived until March 27, he would have been nineteen years 
old. He was born in Emporia, removing with his parents to Franklin seven years 
ago when they returned to make their home here. He received his high school 
education here and spent two years at the Fishburne Military School, Waynesboro, 
Va., entering Washington and Lee University last September.

   Funeral services were held at the University in Lee Chapel Monday afternoon 
at 3:15 o’clock, attended by the faculty and student body and conducted by Dr. 
Thomas Kay Young, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Lexington. The body was 
escorted to the railway station from the chapel by faculty and students, members 
of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, to which David Prince belonged, acting as active 
and honorary pallbearers.

   Mr. and Mrs. Prince, accompanied by A.G. Briggs, Jr., roommate of their son 
at the University, by Mr. McCarthy of the Kappa Alpha fraternity and by Cyrus W. 
Beale of Richmond, reached Franklin with the body Tuesday morning. A brief 
service was held from the residence in First Avenue at four o’clock Tuesday 
afternoon by Rev. R.D. Stephenson and interment was made in the family plot in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery, Mr. Stephenson reading the scripture lesson and Dr. C.H. 
Rowland offering prayer. The pallbearers were Henry B. Lawrence, Wesley Beale, 
Irvin Beale and Ellsworth Jones of Franklin, Robert Prince and Col. E.E. Goodwyn 
of Emporia, A.G Briggs, Jr., and Mr. McCarthy of Washington and Lee University.

   David Prince, Jr., was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and was one of 
our town’s most promising and worthy young men. He was gentlemanly, courteous, 
well-behaved, a dutiful and obedient son, a boy well liked by everyone who knew 
him and saw in him the possibilities of the man to be. How much, how much, we 
love our sons, our children - we see in them something of what we ourselves 
would like to be, and we fondly hope that some of the dreams that failed of 
realization in our own lives may blossom into full fruition in theirs. Like 
links in a chain they bind us to the future, and the breaking of the link is the 
snapping of our heartstrings, leaving an emptiness grievous to be borne. And 
then we need all of the faith of which our preachers tell us, all of that 
sublime trust in One who gives even as He takes away, all of that divine 
assurance that comes to us just when we need it most. In the large crowd of 
sympathizing friends and neighbors that followed the boy to our beautiful God’s 
Acre Tuesday afternoon, in the many flowers that were placed upon his grave, in 
the universal tenderness in the hearts of our people going out to father and 
mother in their sorrow, there is after all, and rising above all else besides, 
the consolation of the life he lived, the all-conquering realization of the life 
beyond which faith and faith alone reveals to them and to us, and without which 
we would be hopeless indeed.


David Tilden PRINCE, Jr., Washington & Lee student, 
d. 19 Mar 1923, Lexington, age 18, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 85B), Franklin, 
   20 Mar 1923, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 23, 1923, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

The obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 23, 1923, p.1) of his only child, 
son David Jr., is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p652d1ob.txt 

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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