Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Prince, Joseph B., 1903 

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JUDGE JOSEPH BROWN PRINCE

(Special to The Times Dispatch)

   SUFFOLK, VA., March 25 - Judge Joseph B. Prince, of Southampton County, 
who last month resigned, after a judicial service of eleven years, died at 
1 o'clock this afternoon at his home in Courtland, aged fifty-nine years. 
He had been suffering several years from an affection of the eyes, and later 
there was heart disease.  Prior to being judge the deceased was clerk of court 
for four years and States's attorney for twelve years.  He was a Confederate 
veteran.  Judge Prince leaves one son, Joseph B. Prince, Jr., the present 
judge, and one daughter, Miss Bessie Prince.

   The funeral will take place at 4 o'clock tomorrow, when the following 
members of the bar will be pall-bearers; Senator William Shands, Hon. John N. 
Sebrell, Jr., Hon. John C. Parker, Captain Robert E. Lee Watkins, E. Frank 
Story, J.L. McLemore and Claude J. Edwards.


Hon. Joseph Brown PRINCE, retired judge, former Clerk of Court, Confederate veteran, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 25 Mar 1903, at home, Courtland, age 58, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 11*), Courtland, 
   26 Mar 1903, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Mar. 26, 1903, p. 2 

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

His parents are buried at his birthplace, "Green Plain." 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-57): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

His mother's funeral was mentioned in "The (Richmond) Daily Times," 
   Dec. 4, 1886 (p. 4, col. 4); file at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p652e3ob.txt  

A mention of his elections as Clerk - abstracted from F. Johnston's 
   "Memorials of Old Virginia Clerks" (1888) - is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/court/clerks.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p652j1ob.txt