Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Vitals.....Drewry, Samuel B., 1923 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Samuel Blount DREWRY, 3 Apr 1852 - 18 Jan 1923, death certificate abstract ______________________________________________________________________________ Certificate of Death, Vol. 672, No. 2958 Commonwealth of Virginia State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics {BVS} Form No. 12. Place Of Death: County of Southampton; Inc. Town of Boykins Registration District No. 1871 Registered No. 2 Full Name: Samuel Blunt* Drewry ______________________________________________________________________________ Personal and Statistical Particulars Sex: Male Color or Race: White Marital Status: married Spouse of: Roberta Drewry* Date of Birth: [blank; 3 Apr 1852*] Age: 71 years* Occupation: County Treas. [code 815] Birthplace: Va [code 46] Father: -Name: James Drewry* -Birthplace: Va [code 46] Mother: -Maiden Name: Martha T. Simmons* -Birthplace: Va [code 46] Informant: H.M. Drewry* Boykins Va Burial or Removal: Near Drewryville Va.*, 1/20, 1923 Undertaker: O.W. Gray & Bro Boykins, Va Filed: Jan 20, 1923 Registrar: Mrs. W.D. Mannes ______________________________________________________________________________ Medical Certificate of Death Date of Death: Jan. 18, 1923 I Hereby Certify, That I attended deceased from 1920 to Jan. 18, 1923 that I last him alive on Jan 17, 1923 and that death occurred, on date stated above, at 6 a.m. The Cause of Death was as follows: Cancer of Lung & Bladder [code 49] Duration: [blank] Contributory (Secondary): [blank] Where was disease contracted if not at place of death? Home Did an operation precede death? no Was there an autopsy? no What test confirmed diagnosis? X Ray (Signed) J.M. Bland, M.D. Jan. 19, 1923 Boykins Va ______________________________________________________________________________ The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA Bureau Of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate 1923-672-2958 Additional information: His middle name was spelled Blount. His mother's middle initial varies in the records. His parents m. 1846 (Southampton Co. M.Reg. pp. 558, 719). His obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 26, 1923, p. 1) with the record of his second marriage appended, is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d660s1ob.txt Buried in the DREWRY family cemetery, "Cedar Grove," Cedar View Ln, Drewryville- 4th Row, Lot 4. His 1st wife is buried in Lot 5, his widow in Lot 4½. Cemetery list gives b. 3 Apr 1852, so d. age 70. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 6 (VI-11): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol6.txt The informant was his son Harry Moss DREWRY (1889-1970), buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins - Annex 3, Section J, Plot 30. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Beechwood list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt Harry's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 28, 1970) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d660h2ob.txt Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Matt Harris, zoobug64@aol.com (Dec 2013) [brackets mine] file size: 5 Kb file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/deaths/d660s1dc.txt