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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 ...
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
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.
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.
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]
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]
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.
Richmond Pearson Hobson (August 17, 1870 – March 16, 1937) was a United States Navy rear admiral who served from 1907 to 1915 as a U.S. Representative from Alabama. A veteran of the Spanish–American War , he received the Medal of Honor years later for his part in that conflict.