Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Simmons, James V., 1963 

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JAMES VANN SIMMONS 

   NEWSOMS - James Vann Simmons (Uncle Jim), 70, a retired Newsoms farmer, 
died Sunday morning at Patrick Henry Hospital after an illness of many months.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Lina Bryant Simmons and a son of Walter V. and 
Mrs. Nannie Elizabeth Caroon Simmons of Southampton County.

   He was a member of Barnes Methodist Church.

   Besides his widow, he is survived by two brothers, Ray Simmons of Newsoms 
and Leland Simmons of Franklin and a sister, Mrs. Bynum Everett of Newsoms.

   A funeral service was conducted Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & 
Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. E.W. Coe of Barnes Methodist Church.  Burial was 
in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Wallace Simmons, Maurice Simmons, Howard Taylor, Bobby 
Snead, William Bryant, Marvin Bryant, Jim Brooks and Roy Jenkins.


"Uncle Jim" James Vann SIMMONS, retired Newsoms farmer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 17 Feb 1963, Hampton, age 70, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 56*), Franklin, 
   19 Feb 1963, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 21, 1963, Sect. I, p. 6 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

His parents, Walter V. & "Nannie Bet" (CAROON) SIMMONS, 
   are buried in a CAROON family cemetery, on Statesville Rd. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 5 (V-46):
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol5.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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