Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitfield, James P., 1916 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.org/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

JAMES P. WHITFIELD

   Mr. James P. Whitfield died at his home in Isle of Wight County, near 
Franklin, Monday, July 10, in his 73rd year.  He was a good citizen, a 
faithful and consistent member of South Quay Baptist Church, a gallant 
Confederate soldier and a good husband and father. The last few years of his 
life he had been in ill health but he bore his sufferings with Christian 
resignation and his loved ones sorrow not as those who have no hope. 

   He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maggie Whitfield; two children, P.H. 
Whitfield of Baltimore and Mrs. Fletcher Babb of Franklin; nine grandchildren 
and a sister, Mrs. James Eley of the Carrsville community, besides a host of 
friends.  The funeral took place Tuesday, July 11, at the home of the deceased 
and was conducted by Dr. C.H. Rowland of Franklin.  During the services an 
affectionate and touching tribute to his services to the Confederacy was made 
by Mr. J.T. Bradshaw, the honored commander of Beaver Dam Camp, U.C.V., to 
which the deceased belonged, his comrade speaking of him as a gallant soldier, 
never failing in duty or flinching under the severe trials of a soldier's life 
and following the Stars and Bars at Gettysburg and upon any other bloody 
fields.  Mr. Whitfield was a member of Company "F", 61st Virginia Infantry, 
Mahone's Brigade, a company organized on the church grounds at Beaver Dam 
Church and of few survivors now with more than fifty years gone by since 
Appomattox fateful field. 

   The pallbearers were J.E. Daughtrey, Claude Duck, William Norfleet, W.T. 
Harcum, Algie Butler and M.L. Glover. 

[James P. WHITFIELD, d. 10 Jul 1916, Isle of Wight, age 73, obituary, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 14 Jul 1916] 

[file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
 and re-formatted by File Manager.]