Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cohoon, Thomas J., 1929 

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THOMAS JONES COHOON 

THOS. J. COHOON DIES OF WOUNDS 

Young Suffolk Business Man Who Shot Himself Twice In The Breast 
   At His Home Here, Succumbs Early Today. 

  Retaining consciousness almost to the end, Thomas J. Cohoon, popular young 
business man, who fired two shots from a .32-caliber pistol into his left 
breast yesterday afternoon, succumbed to his wounds in Lakeview Hospital this 
morning at 4:30 o'clock.  Present with him at the end were his wife and other 
near relatives. 

  That the tragedy ended in death was no surprise to the doctors and others 
familiar with the desperate nature of his wounds.  Both bullets had pierced 
the left lung near the heart and passed entirely through the body of the young 
man, one missile being found on the bed where neighbors discovered him shortly 
after the shooting. 

  The body was removed to an undertaking establishment this morning and 
prepared for burial, after which it was taken to the stricken home in Lakeview 
Heights, where it will remain until the funeral tomorrow afternoon at 5 
o'clock from the residence. 

  Mr. Cohoon is survived by his widow, who was Miss Allie [sic; Alice] Mae 
Cutchin of Suffolk, and two children, besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
W. Cohoon; one brother, Willis Cohoon, and two sisters, Miss Goode Cohoon of 
Suffolk, and Mrs. James McIntyre of Boston. 

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Cohoon Funeral Today From The Residence 

  Funeral services for the late Thomas J. Cohoon, 31, who died yesterday in a 
local hospital, will be held this evening from the family residence in 
Lakeview Heights, conducted by the Rev. H.N. Tucker, rector of St. Paul's 
Episcopal Church. 

  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.  The family requests that friends of 
Mr. Cohoon and the family act as honorary pallbearers.


Thomas Jones COHOON, automobile dealer, 
b. 10 Oct 1897*, Montgomery, Montgomery Co., AL, 
shot self 24 Jun 1929, at home, Suffolk, d. 25 Jun 1929, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block D, Lot 101*), Suffolk, 26 Jun 1929, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 7, No. 96, Tues., June 25, 1929, p. 1; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 7, No. 97, Wed., June 26, 1929, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Wayne Lunde - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #64265072. 

His parents are buried in the same lot. 

D.Cert. 15796 (Suffolk #226) gives b. 10 Oct 1898, altered to 1897. 

His widow is buried with her second husband George Blaine ARTMAN, Sr., in 
   Block F, Lot 105. 


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