Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Raiford, Hunter D., 1941 

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HUNTER D. RAIFORD 

  Hunter Day Raiford, 65, prominent farmer of the Ivor and Corinth community, 
died Wednesday morning at his home after an illness of many months.  He was 
the son of the late George W. and Almedia Raiford.  Mr. Raiford was a charter 
member of the Ivor Ruritan Club, prominent in educational work and a member of 
Corinth Friends Church. 

  Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Edith Cheyney Raiford of Ivor; one 
daughter, Mrs. Marianna R. Powell of Richmond; three sons, Walter C. Raiford 
of Nashville, Tenn., George H. Raiford of Victoria, Joseph C. Raiford of Ivor; 
two grandchildren; three brothers, Dr. R.L. Raiford of Franklin, E. Jerome 
Raiford of Petersburg and E. Wistar Raiford of Ivor; two sisters. Mrs. Ethel 
R. Neave of Guilford College and Mrs. Esther R. Hare of Holland and a number 
of nieces and nephews. 

  Services are being conducted this afternoon at 3 o'clock (E.S.T.) at the 
Corinth Friends Church by the Rev. James Rauch Stein, his pastor, assisted by 
a nephew of Mrs. Raiford, Harold Cheyney of Newark, N.J. 

  Pallbearers are L.E. Beale, Tyler Edwards, L.T. Saunders, W. Burnley 
Raiford, John E. Babb, John H. Stephenson, Charles E. Neave and W.C. Andrews, 
with burial in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley. 


Hunter Day RAIFORD, farmer, 
b. 13 Aug 1876, Southampton Co., d. 10 Sep 1941, at home, Ivor R.F.D., 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 12 Sep 1941, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 36, No. 47, Fri., Sep. 12, 1941, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Rosemont list (S-56): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by SedleyFarmGirl - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #62513399. 

D.Cert. 22930 (Berlin & Ivor #17) 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," July 15, 1949, p. 9) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r163e9ob.txt 

His parents, George Washington and Almedia (BOWDEN) RAIFORD, are buried 
   in the Corinth Friends (RAIFORD/BRADSHAW) Cemetery, near Corinth. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (MV-I-5): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

His mother's obits ("Tidewater News," Jan. 9 & 16, 1920) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r163a1ob.txt 


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