Southampton-Essex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Waring W., 1952 

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WARING WRIGHT SMITH

   Waring Wright Smith, 63, a native of Essex County and a resident of 
Franklin since 1912, died in Raiford Memorial Hospital early Sunday morning, 
September 7.  He had been in ill health for the past two years.

   The deceased was the husband of Mrs. Lizzie Brownley Smith and son of the 
late John F. and Mrs. Ann Dillard Smith of Essex County.  A veteran of World 
War I, he entered the grocery business in Franklin in 1913 with his brother 
George Gregory Smith, and continued in this business until his death. 
Although in an enfeebled condition, he persisted in working in the store until 
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   Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Jane S. Dunlap of Plainview, 
Minn., and Miss Mary Brownley Smith of Franklin; one son, Waring Wright Smith, 
Jr., of Wakefield; three grandchildren; one brother, George Gregory Smith of 
Franklin; one sister, Mrs. Dan S. Jones of Williamsburg.

   Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Emmanuel 
Episcopal Church by Rev. John M. Gessell, followed by burial in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery.  The pallbearers were George D. Brownley, Dan S. Jones, Jr., George 
G. McCann, Prentice P. Smith, George O. Watkins and J. Edgar Weede.

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Waring Wright SMITH, of Franklin, grocer, WW-I veteran, 
Essex Co. native, d. 7 Sep 1952, Franklin, age 63, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 52A*), Franklin, 
   9 Sep 1952, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 12, 1952, p. 4 

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


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