Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Simmons, Samuel M., 1966 

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SAMUEL MONCURE SIMMONS

   BOYKINS - A funeral service for Samuel Moncure Simmons was conducted 
Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in McDowell Funeral Home by the Rev. Daniel Ivey of 
Clarksbury Methodist Church and the Rev. Ben B. Ussery.  Burial was in 
Beechwood Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Joe Felts, Tatty Felts, Wilson W. Barnes, Gilbert 
Francis, Elmo Rock, T.R. Griffin, Benjamin Porter and Richard Ricks Jr.

   Simmons, 57, died Sunday at 10 a.m. in a Franklin hospital after a 
long illness.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Lillie Dunlow Simmons and a son of the late 
Samuel Henry and Mrs. Nannie Felts Simmons.

   He was a lifelong resident of Southampton County and a farmer.  He was 
a member of Clarksbury Methodist Church.

   Besides his widow, surviving are two daughters, Miss Christine O. 
Simmons and Mrs. Lucille S. Jenkins of Boykins; a son, Samuel H. Simmons 
of Emporia; four sisters Mrs. Lila S. Webb of Gloucester County, Miss 
Bettie L. Simmons of Richard, Mrs. Dona S. Jones of Fork Union, and Mrs. 
Eva Mae Long of Melbourne, Fla.; a brother, H. Bernard Simmons of Boykins; 
and eight grandchildren.


Samuel Moncure SIMMONS, farmer, lifelong resident of Southampton Co., 
d. 26 Jun 1966, Franklin, age 57, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 1, Section A, Plot 10*), Boykins, 
   28 Jun 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 30, 1966, p. 2 

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

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 23, 1987, p.6A) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s552l2ob.txt 


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