Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lankford, Effie Hart, 1951 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ EFFIE LANKFORD LANKFORD MRS. EFFIE L. LANKFORD Mrs. Effie L. Lankford, 73, a lifelong resident of the county, died suddenly on Thursday morning, July 19, at her home near Sedley. She was the wife of Oliver Grant Lankford, who survives her, and the daughter of the late Wallace and Martha Joyner Lankford of Southampton County. She was a member of the Sedley Friends Meeting. In addition to her husband she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Kennie Blythe of Sedley and Mrs. H.A. Blythe of Franklin; and six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Services were held at the grave in the family cemetery near Sedley on Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, with James A. Coney and Rev. E.N. Hassell officiating. The active pallbearers were Arthur Carr, Presley Cobb, Elijah Joyner, H.A. Lankford, R.R. Lankford, and V.C. Lankford. [Effie (LANKFORD; Mrs. Oliver G.) LANKFORD, d. 19 Jul 1951, age 73, obituary, interred in family cemetery near Sedley, 20 Jul 1951, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 27 Jul 1951] [file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager.]