Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitehead, Samuel A., 1957 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ SAMUEL ADOLPHUS WHITEHEAD Samuel Adolphus Whitehead, 76, resident of Norfolk for the past six months and a retired farmer and merchant of Sebrell, died at the home of his daughter, Miss Ella Frances Whitehead of 825 Westover Ave., Norfolk, on Thursday morning, January 17, after an illness of many months. Mr. Whitehead was the son of the late Robert and Martha Bradshaw Whitehead of Southampton County and husband of Mrs. Lizzie Frances Whitehead who survives him. He was a member of Ghent Methodist Church, Norfolk. Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Miss Ella Frances Whitehead and Mrs. C.W. McMunn of Jackson, Tenn; one son Samuel A. Whitehead, Jr., of Columbia, S.C.; two granddaughters and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home with Rev. C.A. McCornick, Jr. pastor of Courtland Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery, Courtland. Active pallbearers were Willie Whitehead, Charlie Scott, Robert Whitehead, Clifton Whitehead, Robbie Barnes and Bradford Whitehead. Samuel Adolphus WHITEHEAD [Sr.], retired farmer & merchant of Sebrell, Southampton Co. native, d. 17 Jan 1957, at daughter's home, Norfolk, age 76, interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section II, Plot 49*), Courtland, 19 Jan 1957, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 24, 1957, Sect. II, p. 7 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Riverside list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w330s2ob.txt