Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Stephenson, Levi E., 1948 

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LEVI ERNEST STEPHENSON 

L.E. STEPHENSON, FORMER POSTMASTER BURIED IN WAKEFIELD 

  Levi Ernest Stephenson, 77, postmaster, churchman, and a prominent citizen 
of Wakefield for many years, was buried Wednesday afternoon at the Wakefield 
Cemetery.  The rites were conducted by Rev. J.E. White, pastor of the Baptist 
Church where Mr. Stephenson was long as active leader, and Rev. S.L. Dunville 
of the Methodist Church.

  Mr. Stephenson was a native of Southampton but had lived in Wakefield for 
over 50 years where he took an intense interest in church work and in the 
Masonic Lodge.  He died Monday afternoon in a Richmond hospital where he was 
taken several weeks ago.

  He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Earling S. Kitchen, and a grandson, E. 
Stuart Kitchen, Jr. of Wakefield, and a brother, Dr. H.U. Stephenson, of 
Richmond.

  Pallbearers were T.M. Pulley, J.N. Savedge, William Eure, J.L. Francis, J.L. 
Long, Sol. I Jenkins, J.N. Barker and W.A. Stephenson.


Levi Ernest STEPHENSON, of Wakefield, former postmaster, 
b. 15 Jun 1871, Southampton Co., d. 18 Oct 1948, Richmond, 
marked in Wakefield Cemetery*, 20 Oct 1948, 
"Tidewater News," Oct. 22, 1948, p. 5 

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

His brother Dr. Hack Urquhart STEPHENSON supposedly possessed the skeleton of 
   Southampton Insurrection leader Nat Turner, who sold his own remains; 
   article (Richmond "Times," Oct. 14, 1897) posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/news/18971014rt.txt 

Hack is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Richmond. 
   (Find a Grave Mem. #16997686) 

Their father, Confederate veteran Levi Washington STEPHENSON, was buried in 
   the family cemetery, at the home place, Southampton Co., 27 Oct 1908. 
   Site not known (Feb 2021) to the SCHS Cemetery Project. 

His obit ("Times-Dispatch," Oct. 28, 1908, p. 4), 
   with additional data appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s315l2ob.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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