Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Thornton, Herbert V., 1955 

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HERBERT VIVIAN THORNTON 

   Herbert Vivian Thornton, 65, prominent farmer and merchant of the Courtland 
community, died in Raiford Memorial Hospital on Sunday, June 5, after a brief 
illness.  He had been a patient in the hospital since the Thursday night 
preceding his death.

   Mr. Thornton was a son of Erastus and Annie Lee Berry Thornton of 
Southampton County*.  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ethel Hundley Thornton 
of Courtland; two daughters, Mrs. Alice Thornton Williams of Norfolk and Mrs. 
Emily Dickerson of Courtland; three sisters, Mrs. Annie M. Barger of Buena 
Vista, Mrs. Edwin Harrison of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Ila B. Carroll of 
Miami, Fla.; and a brother, Ashton Thornton of Huntington, W.Va.  Another 
brother was the late Hiram Clay Thornton of Suffolk, for several years a 
resident of Franklin.

   The deceased was a member of the Buena Vista Methodist Church, Buena Vista, 
and of Courtland Lodge No. 85, A.F. and A.M.

   Final rites were conducted at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery on Monday 
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock by Rev. L.M. Kanipe, pastor of the Courtland Baptist 
Church.  The Courtland Masonic Lodge also officiated at the burial.

   Pallbearers were Warren Beale, L.A. Clements, G.S. Cornwell, Jr., Eugene 
Howell, Odell Joyner, Eddie Parker, Cedric Pittman and J.D. Woodard, Jr.


Herbert Vivian THORNTON, Courtland farmer & merchant, 
Sussex Co. native*, d. 5 Jun 1955, Franklin, age 65, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 48**), Franklin, 
   6 Jun 1955, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 9, 1955, Sect. II, p. 7 

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

*His 1912 marriage record states he was born & resided in Sussex Co. 
   His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 31, 1957), with the record 
   appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/t653e1ob.txt 


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