Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Stone, Frank E., 1898 

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FRANK ELMER STONE

   "This sad event occurred at his residence in this place" (it was the brick 
house on High Street next to the Methodist Church and now the home of Rev. and 
Mrs. J.S. Maxey) last Tuesday afternoon, June 28, after an illness of about 
three or more weeks.  Some two months or thereabout ago, Mr. Stone had an 
unusually severe spell of roseola, which left him in a weakened condition, but 
with his usual energy he resumed his work as surveyor and contracted malaria 
fever, which developed into typhoid, with the sad result above announced.

   "Mr. Stone was a native of New York State but moved South some eight or ten 
years ago, settling in this county and followed until this year agricultural 
pursuits.

   He was a quiet inoffensive citizen, a gentleman of intelligence, industry 
and probity and a communicant of the Episcopal Church here, of which he was 
once a vestryman.  He leaves a stricken family, a devoted wife and three 
lovely children, towards whom go out the sympathies of our entire community.

   The funeral took place Wednesday evening from Emmanuel P.E. Church, Rev. 
W.W. Walker, Rector.  Interment was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, his grave being 
marked by a small monument bearing the inscription, "Frank Elmer Stone, 
March 23, 1863 - June 28, 1898."  Mr. Stone and his partner, a man named 
Fowler, bought the Dr. Lankford farm, which is now owned by J.L. Doughtie of 
Black Creek.


Frank Elmer STONE, followed agricultural pursuits, 
b. 23 Mar 1863, NY, d. 28 Jun 1898, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 59*), Franklin, 
   29 Jun 1898, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 3, 1947, p. 12** 

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

**We don't know why 1898 burial is in a 1947 newspaper. 


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