Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Silverthorne, Jessie R., 1980 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JESSIE R. SILVERTHORNE Newsoms - A funeral service for Jessie R. Silverthorne, 69, will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in Wright Funeral Home, Franklin by the Rev. Howard Vinson of Hunterdale Baptist Church. Burial will be in Newsoms Cemetery. He died Tuesday at Southampton Memorial Hospital. A native of North Carolina, he is a member of Hunterdale Baptist Church. He is the husband of Mrs. Olivia Beacham Silverthorne and is a retired farmer. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Margie Story of Franklin and Mrs. Ola Gray Spence of Chesapeake; three sons, Johning Brown of Greenville, N.C., Eddie Brown of Virginia Beach, Rollins Silverthorne of Courtland; and one brother, Henry Silverthorne of Washington, N.C. He has 17 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. [Jessie R. SILVERTHORNE, retired farmer, NC native, d. 2 Sep 1980, Franklin, age 69, interred in Hollywood Cemetery, Newsoms, 5 Sep 1980, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 4, 1980, p. 6A] [file transcribed by Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net); and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris.] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s416j1ob.txt