Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rawls, Robert A., 1950 

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ROBERT ADDISON RAWLS

   Robert Addison Rawls, 46*, of Massillion, Ala., a former resident of 
Franklin and of the Holland community, was instantly killed Thursday 
night, March 30, in an automobile accident near his home.  He was the 
son of John A. Rawls of Holland and the late Mrs. Collie Ellis Rawls 
of Nansemond County.

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Louise Rawls, and a daughter, Miss 
Geraldine Rawls, of Massillon; his father and his stepmother, Mrs. 
Louise Cutchins Rawls; a sister, Mrs Margaret Rawls Boykin of Ivor; and 
two brothers, James Rawls of Holland and J.L. Rawls of Winter Haven, Fla.

   The body arrived in Franklin on Sunday morning; and funeral services 
were held at the graveside in Poplar Spring Cemetery at 4 p.m., Rev. R.D. 
Stephenson and Rev. J.C. Lanning officiating.

   Active pallbearers were Bruce Johnson, Ashby Rawls, S.W. Rawls, Jr., 
Charles R. Rawls, H.W. Stephenson, Jack G. Holland, Baxter Rittenberry 
and George Watkins.


Robert Addison RAWLS, of Massillion, AL, formerly of Franklin & Holland, 
Nansemond Co. native, 
killed in automobile accident 30 Mar 1950, near home, age 45*, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 41A*), Franklin, 
   2 Apr 1950, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 7, 1950, p. 14 

*Poplar Spring list gives b. 27 Aug 1904, so d. age 45. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 


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