Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Vitals.....Griffin, Lemuel E., 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Lemuel Everett GRIFFIN, 1845 - 27 May 1918, death certificate abstract ______________________________________________________________________________ Certificate of Death, No. 13540 Commonwealth of Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics {BVS} State Board of Health Place Of Death: County of Southampton; District of Boykins Registration District No. 871 Registered No. 21 Full Name: L.E. Griffin ______________________________________________________________________________ Personal and Statistical Particulars Sex: Male Color or Race: White Marital Status: [blank*] Date of Birth: [blank*] Age: 70 yrs.* Occupation: Farmer Birthplace: Va Father: -Name: Dont no -Birthplace: Dont no Mother: -Maiden Name: Dont no -Birthplace: Dont no Informant: A.P. Minshew* Boykins Va Burial or Removal: Boykins Va*, 5/28, 1918 Undertaker: Jno. Drewery Boykins Va Filed: May 21, 1918 Registrar: A.G. Bradshaw ______________________________________________________________________________ Medical Certificate of Death Date of Death: May 27, 1918 I Hereby Certify, That I attended deceased from March, 1918 to May 27, 1918 I last him alive on May 27, 1918 Death is said to have occurred, on date stated above, at 10 a.m. The Cause of Death was as follows: Gastritis Duration: [blank] Contributory (Secondary): Senility Duration: [blank] (Signed) J.M. Bland, M.D. May 30, 1918 Boykins Va ______________________________________________________________________________ The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA Bureau Of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate 1918-13540 *Additional information: Cemetery list gives b. 1845, so d. age ca. 73. He is interred in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins- Annex 1, Section G, Plot 1. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Beechwood list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt His obit ("Tidewater News," June 7, 1918, p. 3) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g615l3ob.txt Lemuel was survived by widow Sarah E. (WHITEHEAD) GRIFFIN (1854-1922). They m. 2 Nov 1871 in Halifax Co., NC. Her obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 3, 1922, p. 4) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g615s1ob.txt The informant was his son-in-law Alexander Pierce MINSHEW (1873-1939), buried in the next plot. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Matt Harris, zoobug64@aol.com (Dec 2013) [brackets mine] file size: 4 Kb file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/deaths/g615l1dc.txt