Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bowers, Clyde M., 1936 

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CLYDE M. BOWERS

BOWERS FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON

   Suffolk, Nov. 28 - Funeral services for Clyde M. Bowers, victim of a midnight 
attack from a Negro highwayman, on last Sunday morning, who died last night at 
Virginia Hospital of internal hemorrhage, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 
3 o’clock at Main Street Methodist Church, by the pastor, Dr. George Wesley 
Jones, assisted by Dr. H.J. Goodwin of the First Baptist Church. Burial will be 
in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

   Active pallbearers will be R.A. Bowles, Mills and Clinton Hingerty, W.B. 
Berkley, John Morgan, J.W. Tyler; friends of the family will serve as honorary 
pallbearers.

   Young Bowers, 29 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Bowers, of North Main 
Street, was returning home last Sunday morning at 1 o’clock, when he was 
accosted almost in front of his home by a Negro, demanding money. The Negro 
lunged at him with a knife, and Bowers, being unarmed, kicked him away, and 
called for help.

   His mother heard his cries, and ran to a front window, in time to see the 
Negro ran off, but not before he had stabbed Bowers twice in the left lung.

   The wounded man was taken to Virginia Hospital, where his condition was 
regarded as critical.

   With a meager description of the assailant, Police Chief Churn arrested in 
Boykins last night Wesley Couzens, who is charged with the murder of Bowers. 
Couzens had in his possession when arrested a long sharp knife answering to the 
description of the knife which Bowers and Mrs. Bowers saw in the hand of the man 
who struck young Bowers.

   Besides his parents, Mr. Bowers is survived by two brothers, Charles L. and 
W.H. Bowers, Jr., and two sisters, Mrs. C. H. Williams, of Portsmouth, and Mrs. 
J.V. Pritchard, of Suffolk.


[Clyde M. BOWERS, d. 27 Nov 1936, Suffolk, age 29, 
 interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, 29 Nov 1936, 
 donated obit, newspaper unknown, Nov. 29, 1936] 

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