Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rawls, Emmit L., 1964 

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EMMIT LAFAYETTE RAWLS 

   HOLLAND - Funeral service for Emmett [sic; Emmit] L. Rawls was held Friday 
in Beaver Dam Baptist Church at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Edwin C. Thornton Jr. and 
the Rev. Carl Lee Ousley of Holland.

   Rawls, a prominent farmer of Nansemond County, was killed Wednesday when he 
fell on a power saw at his farm about two miles south of here.

   He was a son of the late Lafayette and Annie Ashburn Rawls of Nansemond 
County.

   Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edith Daughtrey Rawls; three daughters, Betty 
Rawls of Hampton and Edith F. and Susan A. Rawls of the home; a son, Emmit L. 
Rawls Jr., a student at VPI; and a brother, James A. Rawls of Richmond.

   Pallbearers were A.R. Butler, Jr., John Edward Rose, Willie T. Wingourne, 
Claude Hedgepeth, Howard Blythe and Elliott Johnson.


Emmit Lafayette RAWLS, farmer, 
b. 7 Jun 1904, d. 8 Apr 1964, on farm, near Holland, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Franklin, 10 Apr 1964, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 13, 1964, Sect. I, p. 5 

*His parents are also buried there. 
   Beaver Dam list (BD-64 & -65), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 11561. 

His father's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald," Jan. 4 & 6, 1947, p. 3) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/r420l7ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 13, 1948, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/r420a2ob.txt 


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

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