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Thomas L. Eastham
Thomas Eastham
Rappahannock native
Thomas Lindsay Eastham 80, of Ben Venue Farms, Washington, died June 27 at Warren Memorial Hospital:
Mr. Eastham was born Sept. 27, 1922 to the late Edwin Marion Eastham and Frances “Frannie" Pullen Eastham.
Mr. Eastham was a lifelong native of Rappahannock County. He enjoyed all things his rural surroundings provided. He was an avid horseman, spending several years breaking horses for the U. S. Army at the Remount in Front Royal during World War II:
Later, he trained and traded fox hunters out of the Rucker Farm in Flint Hill. Aside from horses, he managed and developed the farming enterprise at Ben Venue Farm clearing much of the new land and building a sizable commercial cow.herd.
He traded in stockers and feeders and dealt with many feed lots in and out of the state. Until the very er\d of his life he was involved with all aspects of the farm.
Mr. Eastham served on the board of directors of Charles King & Sons Wholesale Grocery Inc. of Charlottesville, the F & M Bank of Flint Hill, and the Old Dominion Hounds. Mr. Eastham was also a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Washington.
Mr. Eastham is survived by his wife of 50 years, Louise Fletcher King Eastham, two sons, Fletcher King Eastham of South Ben Venue and Lindsay Willoughby Green Eastham of Flint Hill.
Additional survivors include three grandchildren, one brother, William “Dunriy” Guerrant Eastham of Red Hill Farm, Amissville, two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Edwin M.
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