Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitley, Garnett E. Sr., 1973 

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GARNETT EMERSON WHITLEY SR. 

  A funeral service for Garnett E. Whitley Sr., 78, of South Quay Rd., 
Franklin, was held Monday at 2 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home 
by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins and the Rev. Rudolph Kidd.

  Burial was in Southampton Memorial Park.

  Pallbearers were Matthew Turner, George Vaughan Fred Rabil, Church Ridley, 
Walter Bishop, Maxie Day, Bob Sandlin and James T. Gillette Jr.

  Whitley died Saturday in Southampton Memorial Hospital after a long illness.

  A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Mrs. Naomi Hedgepeth 
Whitley and a son of Ben and Annie Smith Whitley.  He was a Baptist.

  He was a farmer and a veteran of World War I.

  Besides his wife, surviving are three sons, Franklin E. Whitley and Garnett 
E. Whitley, Jr., both of Franklin, and Bertram M. Whitley of Chapman, Ala.; 
four sisters, Mrs. Doris Vaughan of Winston, N.C., Mrs. Louise Evans, Mrs. 
Clara Stephenson, and Mrs. Mary McGloughan, all of Portsmouth; two brothers, 
R. Smith Whitley and Sam Whitley, both of Murfreesboro, N.C. and four 
grandchildren.


Garnett* Emerson WHITLEY, Sr., farmer, Army veteran of WW-I, 
b. Hertford Co., NC*, d. 10 Mar 1973, Franklin, age 78, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Christus I, Plot 4*), 12 Mar 1973, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 15, 1973, A-5 

*Additional information: 

The cemetery list has his name spelled Garnet. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Southampton Memorial Park list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 

His parents are buried in Blackjack Oak Cemetery, Whitley Branch Rd. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-39): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt 

While the obit states he was a "native of Southampton County," he appears 
   in the NC Birth Index as Garnett Emerson, b. 5 Sep 1894, Hertford Co., NC, 
   citing Book 4, p. 593. 

His draft registration cards for WW-I & WW-II both give Garnett Emerson, 
   Como, NC (res. Como 1917; Franklin 1942). 


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