Bertie County NcArchives Obituaries.....Wilson, Walter Sidney 1937
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 07-03-1937, P. 1
WALTER SIDNEY WILSON

COURTLAND FARMER KILLED BY RIFLE SHOT AT COLERAIN BEACH

   Walter Sidney Wilson, 45 year old farmer of the Vicksville community, north 
of Courtland, died at Colerain Beach, N.C., early Wednesday afternoon a few 
minutes after his neck was pierced by a bullet from a rifle that accidentally 
discharged while Ernest Sykes, Harrellsville youth employed as a life guard at 
the Beach, was cleaning it.

   Mr. Wilson and his wife and son were at Colerain with a Sunday School and 
B.Y.P.U. picnic from the Courtland Baptist Church and had just finished eating 
their lunch in the pavilion at Colerain where the fatal accident occurred. Sykes 
and another life guard are quartered over the soda fountain in the pavilion, a 
thin partition inclosing their room. It was reported that Sykes was sitting on 
his cot attempting to clean the rifle when it went off, the bullet going through 
the partition and striking Wilson in the neck just as he had arisen from his 
lunch. The top vertebra in the neck was broken and the jugular vein severed by 
the shot.

   Stanley T. Holland of the local undertaking firm of W.J.M. Holland & Son 
answered a call from Colerain and brought the body back to Franklin, the 
accident having occurred at about 1:30 in the afternoon. A coroner’s jury 
absolved Sykes from blame after an examination of the accident.

   Mr. Wilson is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elsie Bradshaw Wilson; a son, Ernest 
Newton Wilson; a daughter, Sidney Elsie Wilson; five brothers, Perry, Gainwell, 
Tillman, Clifton and Herman Wilson, all of South Carolina; and four sisters, 
Mrs. Lelia Windham of Georgetown, S.C., and Mrs. Ada Shurlnight, Mrs. Viola 
Marlow and Mrs. Julia Ward, also of South Carolina.

   Funeral services were held this (Friday) afternoon at 3 o’clock at Mt. Carmel 
Church, Walters, Rev. Floyd P. Davis of the Courtland Baptist Church, pastor of 
the deceased, being assisted in the services by Dr. Elwood W. Jones of Franklin.


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