Southampton-Brunswick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sykes, Edward B., 1946 

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EDWARD BUTLER SYKES

   Edward Butler Sykes, 51, engineer for Camp Manufacturing Company, Franklin, 
died Monday* morning, January 1, at Raiford Memorial Hospital after an illness 
of many months.  Mr. Sykes was the husband of Mrs. Dora Alice Sykes and son of 
the late Charles Wesley and Lorena Harrison Sykes, of North Carolina.  He was 
a member of High Street Methodist Church.

   Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. W.I. Davidson and 
Mrs. T.B. Lynn, both of Franklin; five sons, Edward B., C.J., William 
Eldridge, Norwood and Tommie Sykes, all of Franklin; one granddaughter, Nancy 
Davidson, of Franklin; three sisters, Mrs. S.S. Minton, of Warsaw, N.C.; Mrs. 
Edward Wells of New Mexico, and Miss Lorena Mae Sykes, of Wallace, N.C.; two 
brothers, John N. and Charles W. Sykes, of Wallace.

   Funeral services were held at the home, South Street and Grove Avenue, 
Thursday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. F.W. Aaron.  Burial was in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery.

*Monday was 31 Dec. 

Edward Butler SYKES, engineer for Camp Manufacturing, 
b. 7 Mar 1894, Lawrenceville, d. 1 Jan 1946, Franklin, age 51, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 191*), Franklin, 
   4 Jan 1945, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 4, 1946, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 2481 (Franklin #10). 


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