Southampton County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Underwood, Joseph C., 1955 

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JOSEPH CRAWFORD UNDERWOOD

   Joseph Crawford Underwood, 46, a native of Southampton County and a 
resident of Portsmouth for the past several years, died in a hospital 
there on Thursday night, March 17.

   The son of the late Edward Thomas and Mrs. Emily Irene Bryant Underwood 
of Courtland, he was a member of High Street  Methodist Church, Franklin. 
He was a employee of the Tyree-Jones Motor Company of Portsmouth.

   Surviving are two daughters, Misses Dorothy May and Patricia Underwood, 
both of Capron; one sister, Mrs. Harry Clements of Carthage, N.Y.; and three 
brothers, John I. Underwood of Boykins and James Thomas and Fred F. Underwood, 
both of Franklin.

   Funeral services were  conducted at the grave in Riverside Cemetery, 
Courtland, on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. James W. Turner, pastor of 
High Street Methodist Church.

   Pallbearers were Sheppard Bell, Francis E. Clark, L.C. Doughty, Jack Story, 
Walter L. Young and Sam Young.


Joseph Crawford UNDERWOOD, of Portsmouth, Tyree-Jones Motor Co. employee, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 17 Mar 1955, Portsmouth, age 94, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 30*), Courtland, 
   20 Mar 1955, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 24, 1955, Sect. I, p. 7 

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

His ex-wife, Elsie B. (AVENT UNDERWOOD; Mrs. Herman L. Sr.) JARRATT, 
   is buried in Capron Cemetery.  SCHS Cemetery Project, Capron list (C-18): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/capron.txt 


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