Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Byrd, Oliver T., 1939 

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O. T. BYRD DIES OF INJURIES IN AUTO ACCIDENT 

Struck Leaving Bus Friday Night Near Bethlehem Church 

LEFT HOSPITAL 

Returned Saturday And Died Late Yesterday; 5 Others Are Killed 

  O.T. Byrd, of Suffolk, and five other Virginians died violent deaths during 
the weekend, with highway accidents claiming three victims, a deputy sheriff 
was shot raiding a liquor still in Patrick county, and a Warren county 
carpenter was found beaten to death in his mountain cabin near Front Royal. 

  Mr. Byrd, 48, of York street, died yesterday afternoon at 3:30 at the 
Lakeview Hospital from injuries received in an accident Friday night near 
Bethlehem Christian Church on the Holland highway. 

Wouldn't Stay 

  It is reported that Mr. Byrd was struck by an automobile coming from 
Franklin driven by Leonard Barr, of Portsmouth and Suffolk, as he alighted 
from a Franklin-bound bus. 

  Mr. Barr carried Mr. Byrd to the hospital for treatment but Mr. Byrd refused 
to stay, thinking his injuries slight. 

  He was admitted Saturday morning to the hospital at 7 o'clock for an 
operation.  It was found he was suffering from internal injuries and a 
fractured leg.  He failed to rally to medical treatment. 

  An official investigation will be made of the accident by State Police, it 
was said. 

  Lewis Taylor, 28-year-old Negro of Ellerson, was killed instantly Sunday 
night when struck by an automobile on the Mechanicsville Turnpike.  The auto 
struck the Negro as he ran across the highway. 

  The driver of an automobile was killed and four companions injured yesterday 
when their car struck the trailer of a produce truck about three miles south 
of South Hill.  The dead man was identified as Will Woods, Negro, of 
Washington. 

  John J. Joynes of Norfolk died in a Frederick, Md., hospital Saturday night. 
His chest was crushed in an auto-truck accident near Hyattstown, Md. 

  Walter Willis, Patrick county deputy sheriff, was fatally wounded Saturday 
while raiding a moonshine liquor still south of Stuart near the Virginia-North 
Carolina line. 

  Elisha Squartz, 48, a carpenter living alone at his mountain home south of 
Front Royal, was found beaten to death Saturday. 

Funeral Service 

  Funeral services for Mr. Byrd will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 3 
o'clock at the I.O. Hill and Co. Funeral Home by the Rev. J.C. Truitt, pastor 
of the Suffolk Christian Church.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery. 

  Mr. Byrd is survived by his wife, Mrs. Melissa Byrd; two daughters, Mrs. 
J.W. Brinkley, of Suffolk, and Mrs. J.H. Duke, of Nansemond county; one son, 
Delaney C. Byrd; two grandchildren; his mother, Mrs. A.T. Byrd, of Suffolk; 
three sisters, Mrs. O.L. Holland, of Suffolk, and Mrs. Jimmie Bonds and Mrs. 
Frank Spady, of Portsmouth; two brothers, N.H. Byrd, of Chuckatuck, and J.A. 
Byrd, of Suffolk, and several nieces and nephews. 


Oliver Thomas BYRD, of Suffolk, Bell Hosiery Mill employee, 
b. 9 Feb 1895*, Nansemond Co., d. 3 Dec 1939, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block P, Lot 28*), Suffolk, 5 Dec 1939, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 217, Mon., Dec. 4, 1939, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

His parents, Alexander Thomas & Elizabeth O. (HOLLAND) BYRD, are buried in 
   Block F, Lot 16.  Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

His gravestone shows b. 1896.  A photo of it - added by Steve Poole - 
   is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #93396224. 

D.Cert. 26649 (Suffolk #246) 

His widow 2m. his widowed brother "Javie" Javan Alexander BYRD, 26 Jun 1964, 
   in Suffolk.  (Nan.Co. #47) 

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"Suffolk News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 224, Tues., Dec. 12, 1939, p. 1 

Barr Is Exonerated In Byrd Accident 

  Phillip Barr, Norfolk business man, was exonerated of blame in tbe fatal 
injury of O.T. Byrd, Suffolk resident, when the accident case was heard before 
Trial Justice Nat T. Gray in county court today. 

  Mr. Byrd was struck by Barr's car as the Suffolk man walked around a bus 
from which he had alighted near Bethlehem church, on the Holland highway.  The 
accident occurred November 30. 

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"Suffolk News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 225, Wed., Dec. 13, 1939, p. 1 

Wrong Barr Listed As Being Exonerated 

  In reporting the hearing before Judge Nat T. Gray yesterday of circumstances 
in connection with the fatal injury of O.T. Byrd, struck by an automobile 
driven by Leonard Barr, this paper inadvertently and unintentionally listed 
the driver of the car as Phillip Barr, brother of Leonard.  Leonard Barr, who 
was exonerated of blame in the case, is a Suffolk and Norfolk business man. 


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