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American obituary for WWI death Traditional street obituary notes in Bulgaria. An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person. [1] Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case. [2]
Weetman John Churchill Pearson and his twin sister, Angela was born on 27 February 1910 in Whitehall. [1] [2] They had four sisters. His father was Harold Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray. [1] His paternal grandfather was Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray. His mother was Agnes Beryl Spencer-Churchill. [1]
Similarly, a hundred obituaries might carry more weight than a single news article about a particular incident (WP:PROPORTION). Paid obituaries, or those that are published by private individuals, are self-published sources that are wholly or primarily about a third party (the deceased) and which may be partly about other third parties as well ...
Emporia has long been a transportation crossroads. The Meherrin River, like the Nottoway River and the Blackwater River, empties to the southeast into Albemarle Sound.The Town of Hicksford (originally Hicks' [7] Ford) was settled by Captain Robert Hicks (1658-1739) in the Virginia Colony, where the Fort Road of eastern Virginia crossed the Meherrin River en route to Fort Christanna.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Pages in category "People from Emporia, Virginia" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
William Lindsay White was the only son of William Allen and Sallie White, born in Emporia, Kansas on June 17, 1900. He had a younger sister, Mary, who was killed in a horse-riding accident at the age of 16 in May 1921. [1] White grew up in Emporia, and worked as a teenager as a reporter for the Gazette. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Emporia, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.