Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Lewis B., 1923 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ LEWIS BURTON SMITH After an illness of a few days, Lewis Burton Smith, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Smith, died Wednesday morning at the age of fourteen months. From the beginning of its illness, it seemed to grow weaker, responding very little to any means used for its recovery, when Monday it developed pneumonia which soon resulted in death. The burial took place in the family cemetery. Many beautiful flowers were put on the grave. The services were conducted by Rev. J.L. Carrick at the grave. Lewis Burton SMITH, son of Bernard A. & Lula (BEALE) SMITH, d. 6 Jun 1923, age 14 months, interred in family cemetery*, near Boykins, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 8, 1923, p. 6 *Site not known (Nov 2018) to the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project. His parents are buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins - Annex 2, Plot 183. SCHS Cemetery Project, Beechwood list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s530l9ob.txt