Wayne County NcArchives Deaths.....Potts, Paul Leslie May 20, 1946
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Wilson Daily Times - May 20, 1946
Goldsboro Boy Found Dead on Highway
Goldsboro, NC, May 20 - AP

Paul Leslie Potts, 26, GM First Class, died at Goldsboro Hospital at 4 a.m. 
Monday. He was found on the white line in the middle of the highway near 
Calypso in a dying condition at four thirty Sunday morning by J. R. Price of 
Goldsboro who was returning home from Calypso where he runs a filling station. 
Price notified policeman Charlie Barwick at Mount Olive who called Duplin 
County Deputy Sheriff R. M. Byrd.

Deputy Byrd said there was no sign on the road indicating he had been struck 
by a car. Byrd was told by Potts' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper M. Potts of 
Dudley, that their son left home about midnight saying he "was going to walk 
out awhile." It was 12 miles from his home two miles east of the Brogden School 
to the spot where he was found Byrd said.


Death Certificate
Name:                Potts, Paul Leslie
Date Of Death:       May 20, 1946 Time: 3:57 am
Place Of Death:      Wayne County, NC
Residence:           Wayne County, NC
Gender:              Male
Race:                W
Age:                 25
Marital Status:      Married
Spouse:              Branch, Harriet
Date Of Birth:       September 1, 1920
Place Of Birth:      Wayne County, NC
Mother's Name:       Walker, Vida
Mother's Birthplace: Georgia
Father's Name:       Potts, Jasper M.
Father's Birthplace: Wayne County, NC
Cause Of Death:      Compound fracture skull
Hospital:            Unknown
SS Number:           n/a
Occupation:          Gunner's Mate; US Navy
Funeral Home:        Seymour Funeral Home
Doctor:              Drs. Cobb & Thompson
Coroner:             Wm. L. Thompson
Informant:           Rufus Potts (brother)
Date Of Burial:      May 22, 1946
Place Of Burial:     Emmaus Baptist Church, Brogden township
Date Recorded:       July 26, 1946
Certificate No.:     15538

Certificate also states acute brain injury; cereberal hemmorage, depressed 
fracture; accident occurred in Duplin County; pedestrian - auto

(Some say he may have been pushed from a moving vehicle)

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