Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Darden, Thomas A., 1921 

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THOMAS AMBROSE DARDEN

   Mr. T.A. Darden died at his home in the Sycamore community Wednesday 
morning, April 27, aged 69 years, following a long and painful illness from 
internal cancer. He was a kind and helpful neighbor, a useful citizen in his 
community and a faithful member of Sycamore Baptist Church. The patience and 
Christian fortitude with which he born his intense suffering was truly 
remarkable and gave every indication of a mind resigned to the will of the 
Heavenly Father.

   He is survived by his widow and six children four sons, Joe Darden of 
Richmond, Redelle Darden of Florida, Hunter and Theon Darden on Franklin; two 
daughters, Mrs. I.Q. Wiggins and Miss Annie Laurie Darden of Franklin; three 
brothers, Robert and Rufus Darden of Franklin and Richard Darden of Portsmouth; 
two sisters, Mrs. W.M. Cobb and Mrs. Josephine Vaughan of Franklin, besides a 
wide circle of relatives and friends.

   Funeral services were conducted from Sycamore Church Thursday afternoon at 
3:30 o’clock by Rev. E. Norfleet Gardner, assisted by Reverends L.F. Paulette, 
M.A. Maclean and C.H. Rowland. The interment was made in the cemetery of the 
church, the active pallbearers being his four sons, Joe, Redelle, Hunter and 
Theon; son-in-law, I.Q. Wiggins, and nephew Eddie Vaughan. The honorary 
pallbearers were a number of friends of the deceased of the town and community, 
a large concourse of people assembling to pay the last tribute of respect to 
their friend and neighbor.


[Thomas A. DARDEN, d. 27 Apr 1921, age 69, 
 interred in Sycamore Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 3, Plot 24), 28 Apr 1921, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 29 Apr 1921, p. 1] 

[dt Mrs. I.Q. Wiggins contributed to the WPA Historical Inventory, 1937] 

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