Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Saunders, Jesse D. Sr., 1949 

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Jesse D Saunders Dies in Windsor

Jesse Dashwood Saunders, Sr, 78, custodian of the Windsor High School for the 
past 27 years died at his Windsor home at 2:35 o'clock yesterday afternoon. 

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 pm in the West Baptist Church, Windsor 
by Rev B A Riddle, pastor, assisted by Rev Sidney Cobb. Interment will follow 
in Windsor Cemetery. 

The body is presently resting in the R W Baker Funeral Home in Suffolk and will 
be taken to the West Baptist Church tomorrow at noon to lie in state there 
until 3 pm.

The son of the late Stephen L & Eva [sic*] Bishop Saunders, of Isle of Wight 
and Southampton Counties, the deceased was for 30 years a member of West 
Baptist Church and of its Men's Bible Class. 

He is survived by his wife, Mrs Mabel Robinson Saunders; four sons, J D 
Saunders, Jr of Windsor, M M Saunders of Windsor, J B Saunders of Windsor, and 
H L Saunders of Hopewell, Va.

Also four daughters, Mrs George Whitley of Windsor; Mrs J T Parham of Windsor; 
Mrs J Q Fowler of Franklin and Mrs Virginia S Gray of Roanoke; five 
grandchildren, three step-grandchildren; and 2 great grandchildren. 

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J. D. Saunders, Sr. Of Windsor, Va. Died October 28th [sic*] 
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  Jesse Dashwood Saunders, Sr., 78, died October 28th at 3:35 P.M. at his 
home in Windsor. 

  A son of the late Stephen L. and Eva Bishop Saunders of Isle of Wight and 
Southampton Counties, he was custodian of the Windsor High School for 27 
years, and was a member of the Windsor Baptist Church. 

  Besides his wife, Mrs. Mabel Robinson Saunders, he is survived by four 
daughters, Mrs. George Whitley and Mrs. J.T. Parham of Windsor, Mrs J.Q. 
Fowler of Franklin, and Mrs. Virginia S. Gray of Roanoke; four sons, J.D. 
Saunders, Jr., M.N. Saunders, and J.B. Saunders of Windsor, and H.L. 
Saunders of Hopewell; five grandchildren, three step-grandchildren and two 
great-grandchildren. 

  Funeral services were held at the Windsor Baptist Church conducted by the 
Rev. B.A. Riddle, pastor of the Church, assisted by the Rev J. Sidney Cobb. 
Burial was in Windsor Cemetery. 


Jesse Dashwood SAUNDERS, Sr., custodian of Windsor H.S., 
b. 19 May 1878, Isle of Wight Co., d. 29* Oct 1949, at home, Windsor, 
interred in Windsor Cemetery, 
"The Suffolk News Herald" (Suffolk, VA), Oct. 30, 1949; 
"Smithfield Times," Nov. 9, 1949, p. 1, col. 3 

*Additional information: 

The cemetery list gives d. 28 Oct 1949. 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #55: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

D.Cert. 23126 (Windsor #16) gives d. 29 Oct 1949. 

The D.Cert. & obits confuse his daughter's name - Eva Adelaide - with his 
   mother, Lydia Adelaide, dt/o Stith H. & Harriett (STORY) BISHOP.  She m. 
   Stephen Lee SAUNDERS 1 Mar 1877  (Southampton Co. MB3:134).  Her brother 
   Walter Stith BISHOP is buried in the BISHOP family cemetery off Sunbeam Rd. 
   on the farm where he was born & died; presumably their father is also 
   buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 9 (IX-22): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol9.txt 

Widowed, Stephen 2m. Mary V. BEALE, 17 Dec 1884.  She is buried in Newman 
   Memorial Cemetery, Oakland Christian Church, Chuckatuck. 

Widowed again, he 3m. Mary's sister, "Sallie" Sarah F. (BEALE; wid/o John 
   W.E.) MARTIN, 17 Apr 1926, in Suffolk.  She is buried in with her first 
   husband in Newman Memorial Cemetery. 

Stephen's Find a Grave Mem. #7277297 also gives buried in Newman Memorial 
   Cemetery, but his D.Cert. (19070 {Richmond #2193}) gives buried 
   Smithfield, 25 Sep 1945. 


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