Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pinner, M. Fillmore Jr., 1921 

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BOY, 14, IS DROWNED IN NANSEMOND RIVER 

  SUFFOLK, VA., Aug. 2. - Fillmore Pinner, the 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Pinner of this city, was drowned sometime late this afternoon in Nansemond 
River, off the banks at Hurff's Landing. 

  The boy, who is the son of one of the prominent families of the city, failed 
to come home to supper.  A search was instituted and later his clothes were 
found on the river bank.  Scores of persons are draging the river tonight in a 
search for the body. 

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USE DYNAMITE TO FIND BODY OF DROWNED BOY 

  SUFFOLK, VA., Aug. 4. - After a search of nearly twenty-four hours and using 
dynamite as last resort to find the body of 12-year-old Fillmore Pinner, 
youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. M.F. Pinner, of this city, the body came to the 
surface of Nansmond River, not twenty-five feet from the scene of the probable 
drowning. 

  The little boy with several others went to Hurffs Beach on the Nansemond, 
Tuesday afternoon for a swim.  Missed from home at supper time, a search was 
made and the boy's clothes were found near the edge of the stream where the 
boys had gone for their swim. 


Millard Fillmore PINNER, Jr., 
son of M.F. Sr. & Mary (MacRAE) PINNER, of Suffolk, 
b. 2 Nov 1908, Suffolk, drowned 2 Aug 1921, Hurff's Landing, Nansemond River, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block E, Lot 10*), Suffolk, 4 Aug 1921, 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Aug. 3, 1921, p. 3, col. 4; 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Aug. 5, 1921, p. 3, col. 3 

*His mother is also buried there.  Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 

His father is buried in St. John's P.E. Church, Chuckatuck. 
   St. John's list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/stjohn.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 18043 (Suffolk #186) 


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