Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....White, John W., 1937 

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JOHN WILKINS WHITE 

PROMINENT CITIZEN, J.W. WHITE, PASSES 

   J.W. White, prominent farmer and merchant of the Manry community, died 
early Monday morning at Lakeview Hospital, Suffolk, following heart trouble 
of several weeks duration.  Surviving Mr. White are two sons, Clarence Freeman 
White of Manry and Richard Hartley White, of Suffolk; two daughters, Mrs. E.N. 
Nicholson of Murfreesboro, N.C., and Mrs. J.T. Knight of Richmond.  His wife, 
Mrs. Fannie Freeman White, preceded him to the grave three months ago.

   Mr. White had been chairman of the Southampton County School Board and was 
a member of the county Electoral Board for several years.  He was a charter 
member of the board of directors of the Bank of Sussex and Surry at Wakefield. 
Mr. White was successfully engaged in farming and the mercantile business in 
his community and was for many years a member of the Wakefield M.E. Church.

   Funeral services were conducted at the residence Wednesday afternoon at 2 
o'clock by Rev. E.H. Humphrey, his pastor.  The hymns "The Old Rugged Cross" 
and "In The Land Where We Never Grow Old" were sung by a quartette composted 
by Mrs. G.T. Allen, Mrs. Sam Whitfield, C.G. Laine and O.J. Cockes, while at 
the graveside in the family cemetery the combined choirs of the Wakefield 
churches sang "In the Sweet Bye and Bye."  Active pallbearers, nephews of the 
deceased, were J.L. Parsons, M.H. Hargrave, R.E. Carroll, Edwin Carroll, 
Algernon Neblitt, Benjamin Neblitt, G.B. White and J.P. Emory.  Honorary 
pallbearers were friends of the deceased.


John Wilkins WHITE, of Manry, farmer & merchant, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 9 Aug 1937, Suffolk, age 71, 
interred in the WHITE family cemetery*, near Manry, 
   11 Aug 1937, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 13, 1937, p. 1 

*His parents are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-42): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," May 21, 1937, p. 4) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w300c4ob.txt 


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