Suffolk City-Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Mumford, Moses A., 1983 

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Moses Mumford 

  Moses Anthony Mumford, 91, of Pruden Avenue died Wednesday in a Richmond 
hospital. 

  A native of Southampton County, he was the widower of Virgie Beaton Mumford. 

  He was a retired woodworker for Norfolk Naval Shipyard and was a World War 
I National Guard veteran.  He was a life member of Franklin American Legion 
Post 73 and Portsmouth Disabled American Veterans Post 22 and a former member 
of Sedley Encampment Woodmen of the World. 

  Survivors include a son, M. Beamon Mumford of Carrsville; a daughter, Mary 
A. Carr of Moore, S.C.; a brother, Carr Mumford [sic; Munford] of Isle of 
Wight; three sisters, Sallie Mumford and Carrie M. Stephenson, both of 
Burdette, and Ruby Beamon of Suffolk; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-
grandchildren. 

  The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in Purviance Funeral Chapel, 
Wakefield, by the Rev. J. Waverly Horne. 

  Burial will be in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley. 

  The family will be at Purviance Funeral Home from 7 to 8 p.m. today. 


Moses Anthony MUMFORD, retired NNSY woodworker, Army veteran of WW-I, 
b. 21 Jan 1892, Southampton Co., d. 28 Dec 1983, Richmond, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 30 Dec 1983, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 61, No. 310, Thurs., Dec. 29, 1983, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Rosemont list (S-51): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 

Photo of his gravestones - added by Natalie Padgett - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #32545302. 

D.Cert. 83-041822 

His father, Alfa Floyd VICK (1885 - 1950), & step-mother are buried in 
   Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley, Southampton Co. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Rosemont list (S-69 & 76): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 

His parents, Moody Alfred Sr. & "Susie" Susan Emily (RAIFORD) MUNFORD, 
   are buried in the RAIFORD-MUNFORD family cemetery, off Appleton Rd. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (MV-VIII-8): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 

About half of his siblings used MUMFORD, the rest MUNFORD. 


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