Surry-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hancock, Benjamin W. Sr., 1939 

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BENJAMIN WALTER HANCOCK 

B.W. HANCOCK 

  SURRY - Funeral services for Benjamin Walter Hancock, 78, who died Monday 
night at the home of his son, P.L. Hancock, were conducted Wednesday at Rocky 
Hock Methodist Church by the Rev. R.M. Robertson of the Surry Methodist Church 
and the Rev. R.N. Hartness, pastor of the Rocky Hock Methodist Church. 
Interment was in the family plot in the cemetery adjoining the church. 

  Mr. Hancock, who was a son of Joseph Henry and Georgie Richardson Hancock, 
had been in ill health for about a year.  He is survived by two daughters, 
Mrs. Howard Edwards of South Norfolk and Mrs. Percy Pittman of Dendron; five 
sons, Ernest of Waterbury, Conn.; Walter of Bangar, Pa.; Benjamin of Richmond; 
Chris of Wakefield and Peyton Hancock of Surry; two brothers, R.L. Hancock of 
Newport News and J.A. Hancock of Dory, Southampton County, and several 
grandchildren. 


Benjamin Walter HANCOCK, Sr., retired farmer & merchant, 
b. 19 Jul 1861, Sussex Co., d. 6 Nov 1939, at son's home, Surry Co., 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 35*), Surry Co., 
   8 Nov 1939, 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Nov. 11, 1939, p. 19 

*Rocky Hock list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/cemeteries/rockyhk.txt 

A photo of his gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137094722. 


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