Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cox, R. Sidney, 1935 

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RICHARD SIDNEY COX 

R. SIDNEY COX DIES WITHIN HOUR AFTER CRASH 

Funeral Thursday 

  R. Sidney Cox, 46, of Smithfield, and widely known in Norfolk and Suffolk 
was fatally injured Tuesday morning about 7:30 o'clock in an automobile 
accident on the Suffolk-Smithfield highway, just at the entrance into 
Smithfield, and died an hour later in the office of Dr. Rea Parker and Dr. 
Hugh Warren, of internal hemorrhage.

  Mr. Cox who is manager of the plant of V.W. Joyner Company in Smithfield, 
had been to Norfolk on a business trip and had spent the night in that city. 
He was making an early return to his home, and just before reaching Smithfield 
was seen to swerve as if he were going into Jack Grimes' Pagan Pines Filling 
Station; he turned back on the highway, and evidently lost control of his car, 
in which he was driving alone.  The car crashed into a telephone pole and 
turned over several times.

  Mr. Cox was thrown clear of the wreckage, and when picked up, was still 
conscious.  He was rushed to the office of Dr. Parker, who was assisted by Dr. 
Hugh Warren in giving first aid but died within an hour.

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Joyner Cox; a daughter Miss Mary 
Joyner Cox, who is a student at State Teachers College, Farmville; a son, R. 
Sidney Cox, Jr. , a brother, Herbert N. Cox of Newport News; two sisters, Mrs. 
T.J. Seward, of Smithfield, and Mrs. T.L. Lipscomb of Crewe; two uncles, R.S. 
Chapman, of Crewe, and W.R. Cox, of Smithfield.

  He was a member of Trinity Methodist Church, Smithfield, and of its choir 
and Men's Bible Class and a member of the Smithfield Town Council.

  Funeral services will be held at Trinity Methodist Church, Smithfield, 
Thursday morning (today) Aug. 29th at 11 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. F.B. 
Oglesby.  Burial will be in Ivy Hill Cemetery.

  The pallbearers will be Junius Batten, Randolph Barlow, George Bryant, M.S. 
Koontz, James Everette, Louis l. Chapman, Harry D. Dashiells, W.J. Briggs and 
W.H. Sykes, Jr.


Richard Sidney COX [Sr.], of Smithfield, Town Councilman, ham plant manager, 
fatally injured in crash, 28 Aug 1935, Smithfield, age 46, 
interred in Ivy Hill Cemetery*, Smithfield, 29 Aug 1935, 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 15, No. 20, Aug. 29, 1935 

*Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #48: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

His widow was the daughter of the ham company's namesake founder.  She and 
   her brother d. 2 Jan 1955.  Their obits ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," and 
   "Smithfield Times") are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/j560v4ob.txt 


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