Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Melvin D., 1922 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MELVIN DAVIS JONES Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Jones lost by death their little eleven-months old son, Melvin Davis Jones, Tuesday, June 6. The baby was ill only a few days and the bereaved parents have the universal sympathy of our townspeople in their sorrow, which comes to them with peculiar force in the sudden taking away of their little one. Burial services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock in Poplar Spring Cemetery by Dr. C.H. Rowland, assisted by Rev. J.A. Chapman. [Melvin Davis JONES, d. 6 Jun 1922, age 11 months, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, 7 Jun 1922, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 9 Jun 1922, p. 1] [file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager.]