Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Vitals.....Garris, Oscar, 1916 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Oscar GARRIS, 1866 - 31 Jul 1916, death certificate abstract ______________________________________________________________________________ Certificate of Death, Vol. 262, No. 18762 Commonwealth of Virginia State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics {BVS} H.D.V.S. Form No. 12, 200M.--6-15-12. Place Of Death: County of Southampton; District of Drewryville Va Registration District No. 870 Primary Registration District No. 2 Registered No. 11 ["13" overwritten] Full Name: Oscar Garris ______________________________________________________________________________ Personal and Statistical Particulars Sex: Male Color or Race: White Marital Status: [blank*] Date of Birth: 1866 Age: 50 yrs. Occupation: [blank] Birthplace: Northampton Co, N.C. Father: -Name: G. Garris* -Birthplace: NC Mother: -Maiden Name: Beckie Everett* -Birthplace: Southampton Informant: Jno. P. Fox* Burial or Removal: Boykins Va*, Aug 1, 1916 Undertaker: Friends Filed: July 31, 1916 Registrar: M.L. Westbrook ______________________________________________________________________________ Medical Certificate of Death Date of Death: July 31, 1916 I Hereby Certify, That I attended deceased from July 30, 1916 to July 31, 1916 I last him alive on July 31, 1916 Death is said to have occurred, on date stated above, at 2 A.M. The Cause of Death was as follows: Apoplexy. Duration: ½ ds. Contributory (Secondary): [blank] (Signed) James A. Grizzard, M.D. July 31, 1916 Drewryville, Va. ______________________________________________________________________________ The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA Bureau Of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate 1916-262-18762 *Additional information: Grave site not known (Dec 2013) to the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project. Added to list of interments at Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt There are several BAUGHAM/MILES family cemeteries on Garris Mill Rd. (Rt 693), a few miles north of Boykins. See SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vols. 5, 6, & 7. Informant John Powell FOX (1868-1937) is buried in Thomas Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery, Drewryville. SCHS Cemetery Project, Drewryville list (D-8): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/drewryvl.txt Oscar's parents, as given above, do not match his marriage record- Oscar Garris, 34, s, Northampton Co., N.C., So.Co., s/o Billie and Mary Garris, Farmer m. 03-07-1901 Bride’s residence by Rev. T.O. Edwards Mildred "Millie" Worrell, 33, s, So.Co., So.Co., d/o Joseph Henry and Henrietta Bryant Worrell [widowed, Millie 2m. 10-10-1917 widower Richmond A. Dundalow, s/o Benjamin and Georgianna (So.Co. MB17:62)] (Southampton Co. MB10:364; transcribed & annotated by Bruce Saunders: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/mb10pt.txt) Oscar's parents' marriage is not found in Southampton Co. records. 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/g620o1dc.txt