Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Richardson, Otis Eugene, 1944 

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OTIS EUGENE RICHARDSON 

  WAKEFIELD - Otis Eugene Richardson, 68, died in Lakeview Hospital, Suffolk, 
Tuesday.  He was a lifelong resident of Wakefield and was in the mercantile 
business many years.  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. May Bridgers Richardson, 
a half-sister, Mrs. T.W. Stroud, of Richmond; three half-brothers, E.M. 
Richardson, of Dendron; Thomas, of Richmond, and Junius Richardson, of 
Portsmouth.  Funeral services will be conducted at the grave in Wakefield 
Cemetery at 3 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. W.G. Bates, of the Wakefield Methodist 
Church, assisted by the Rev. M.W. Butler.


Otis Eugene RICHARDSON, Wakefield merchant, 
b. 27 Jan 1875, Sussex Co., d. 18 Jan 1944, Suffolk, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 20 Jan 1944, 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Jan. 19, 1944, p. 11 

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

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 999 (Suffolk #20), which gives son of 
   Rives B. & Jennie (HARRIS) RICHARDSON. 

His widowed father, Rives Briggs RICHARDSON, 2m. Eugenia M. BARRETT, 
   14 Mar 1878 in Southampton Co.  (Southampton Co. MB3:277) 

According to his military headstone application, Rives served in Co. K, 
   6th Va. Infantry, CSA; d. 14 Jun 1906; buried in a private family cemetery, 
   in or near Wakefield.  The 1900 Census (Waverly Dist., Sussex Co.) 
   gives b. Sep 1843. 

His step-mother (1859-1934) is buried in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg. 


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