Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitehead, Augustus C., 1947 

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AUGUSTUS CRUMPLER WHITEHEAD

   Funeral services for Augustus Crumpler Whitehead, aged 63, well-known 
resident of Handsom, who died at his home on Friday, August 8, after an 
illness of many months, were held at the W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home 
on Sunday afternoon, August 10, at one o'clock, and were conducted by his 
pastor, Rev. N.D. Blackman, of the Courtland Baptist Church.  Russell Bulman 
of Norfolk sang "Abide With Me" and "In the Sweet Bye and Bye."

   A son of the late Jacob Warner and Ella Crumpler Whitehead of this county, 
Mr. Whitehead was a member of the Courtland Baptist Church.

   Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Margie Vann Whitehead; one daughter, Mrs. T.C. 
Cutchins, Jr., of Handsom; four sons, Arthur C. Whitehead of Murfreesboro, 
N.C., William Wallace Whitehead of Norfolk, and Warner Vann Whitehead and 
Delbert L. Whitehead of Handsom; two brothers, Emmett Whitehead and Frank 
Whitehead of Courtland; two sisters, Mrs. S.A. Whitehead of Sebrell and Mrs. 
Carrie L. Hill of Hilton Village; three grandchildren; and fourteen nieces 
and nephews.

   Burial was in Riverside Cemetery, Courtland.  The pallbearers were Wallace 
Cole, Emmett Applewhite, Emmett Vaughan, Leslie Whitehead, G.D. Hedgepeth, 
J.A. Badgett, A.E. Applewhite and Herman Worrell.


Augustus Crumpler "Gus" WHITEHEAD, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 8 Aug 1947, at home, Handsom, age 63, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section I, Plot 22*), Courtland, 
   10 Aug 1947, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 15, 1947, p. 7 

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

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 15, 1966, p. 13) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w330m1ob.txt 

His mother's (donated, 1897) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w330e1ob.txt 

His parents are buried in a WILLIAMS family cem., Barrow & Pope Station Rds. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (VIII-21): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 


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