Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bain, Thomas L., 1936 

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THOMAS LEMUEL BAIN 

THOS. L. BAIN, WEALTHY CITIZEN OF IVOR, DEAD 

   Thomas L. Bain of Ivor, well-known citizen of that town and prominent in 
financial circles, died in Lakeview Hospital, Suffolk, Monday, March 9, in 
his 83rd year.  Mr. Bain, who was a son of the late Lemuel Frank and Mrs. 
Sarah E. Bain of Sussex County, had made his home in Ivor for more than half 
a century where he conducted a large mercantile business and was reputed to 
be one of the country’s wealthiest men.  He was a consistent communicant of 
the Ivor M.E. Church and the oldest member of that congregation; was generous 
in his contributions to his church and to several other eleemosynary 
institutions, and was unusually charitable in his deeds and motives to the 
poor of his home community.

   He is survived by a brother, Frank B. Bain, a sister, Miss Sallie Bain, 
both of Wakefield; a niece, Mrs. Elliott Richardson of Capron; four nephews, 
Guy Bain of Norfolk, Col. Robert F. Bain of Wakefield, Harry L. Bain of Capron 
and Franklin Bain of Albany, Georgia.

   Funeral services were held from the home of his brother, Frank B. Bain, in 
Wakefield Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., conducted by his Pastor, Rev. L.F. Callaham, 
assisted by Rev. A.K. Lambdin of Chuckatuck and Rev. Clifford Ramsey of 
Capron.  The hymns "My Latest Sun Is Sinking Fast" and "Abide with Me" were 
sung at the house by a selected choir and at the grave "After" and "Safe In 
The Arms of Jesus" were used.  Burial was in the Wakefield cemetery, the 
casket being covered with a pall of ascension lilies, and there were many 
other floral tributes.

   The active pallbearers were: W.C. Rawls, L.T. Saunders, H.S. Boone, D.H. 
Pulley, E.B. Ashby, W.H. Savedge, H.S. Land, E. Whitfield, J.S. White and Dr. 
T.M. Raines.  The honorary pallbearers were chosen from his many friends.


Thomas Lemuel BAIN, Ivor merchant, 
b. 18 Jun 1852, Sussex Co., d. 9 Mar 1936, Suffolk, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 10 Mar 1936, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 13, 1936, p. 1 

*His parents are also buried there.  Wakefield list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

Find a Grave Mem. #23401609 


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