C. L. Burroughs Obituary ~ Nov 15, 1956

Contributed by Joan S Dunn

Last Rites For C. L. Burroughs

Daily Reflector, Thurs., Nov 15, 1956

C. L. BURROUGHS, 75, died suddenly at his home in Grifton Wednesday night at 9:30 
following an apparent heart attack. Funeral services will be conducted at the 
Wilkerson Chapel Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by the Rev. Dave F. FULCHER, 
Pentecostal Holiness minister of Vanceboro, assisted by the Rev. Linwood MANNING, 
Pentecostal Holiness minister of Greenville. Burial will be in the Shelmerdine 
Pentecostal Holiness Church Cemetery. Mr. BURROUGHS, son of the late Prince A. 
and Beadie HONEYCUTT BURROUGHS, formerly lived in the Shelmerdine and Black 
Jack communities, but had lived in Grifton for the past three years. He was a 
member of the Grifton Pentecostal Holiness Church. He was first married to 
Mattie FORNES in 1905 and she died in 1917. In 1918 he was married to Lenora 
COWARD, who died in 1945. He was married to Mrs. Juanita SUTTON BLAND in 1948, 
and she survives. Surviving are a son and a daughter by his first marriage, 
Mrs. Lewis JONES of the Belvoir community and Albert BURROUGHS of Smyrna, N.C.; 
three sons and three daughters by his second marriage, Quincy BURROUGHS of 
near Greenville, Curtis BURROUGHS of Washington, N.C., and Joseph Earl 
BURROUGHS of Greenville, Mrs. Lonnie HADDOCK of Washington, Mrs. George Robert 
MILLS of Black Jack, and Mrs. B. G. JACKSON of near Grifton; 14 grandchildren; 
a half sister, Mrs. Harvey MOORE of Greenville; and three half brothers, Boss 
BURROUGHS of Cherry Point, Crawford BURROUGHS of Wilmington , and Herbert 
BURROUGHS of New Bern.





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