Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Williams, John H., 1943 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JOHN HERVEY WILLIAMS John Hervey Williams, age 35, son of Mrs. Nena Newsom Williams and the late James Charles William, died Friday night, January 15, at the home of his mother on Lee Street, in Franklin, after a brief illness. John Hervey, or "Rip" as he was known affectionately by his friends, was born in Lewiston, N.C., on March 29, 1907. In 1908 his family moved to Franklin where Rip’s boyhood was spent. He attended the Franklin Grammar School and the Franklin High School, later attending Danville Military Institute at Danville, and the University of Richmond, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. After leaving college he was for several years manager of Roses’ Five and Ten Cent Stores in Oxford, Reidsville, Roxboro, Lumberton and Williamston, N.C. In 1930 he, and his brother, Ernest, opened a Five and Ten Cent Store of their own in Murfreesboro, N.C. Two years later, they opened another in his home town which he managed. Until recently he owned and operated the Franklin Billiard Parlor. While "Rip" was of a reticent disposition and not known intimately by many, to his close friends he was amiable, lovable and steadfast. Funeral services were held in his home Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. B.B. Bland, former pastor of High Street Methodist Church, assisted by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Franklin Baptist Church. Pallbearers were three of his brothers. J.C., Eugene and Ernest, Wharton Williams, Leigh Johnson, C.E. Morgan, O.F. Eure of Franklin, and William Bracey of Suffolk. Music was rendered by a quintet consisting of Mrs. J.S. Maxey, Miss Marie Eley, Miss Margaret Turner, T.J. Crooks and C.E. Morgan, accompanied by Mrs. F.F. Powell at the organ. The hymns were "How Firm A. Foundation" and "The Rock of Refuge." In addition to his mother, the deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs. Harvey J. Pence of Arlington; four brothers, J.C., Jr., of Franklin, E. Eugene of Spartanburg, S.C., Private Paul C. of Richmond, and St. Petersburg, Fla., and Ernest N. of Murfreesboro, N.C., and three nephews, besides a wide family connection throughout Virginia and North Carolina. John Hervey "Rip" WILLIAMS, Franklin businessman, b. 29 Mar 1907, Lewiston, NC, d. 15 Jan 1943, at mother's home, Franklin, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 65A*), Franklin, 17 Jan 1943, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 22, 1943, p. 8 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.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/w452j11o.txt