Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Parker, Mitchell F., 1902 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ COLLISION OF MAN AND BUGGY Mitchell Parker The Driver Instantly Killed. [sic] OTHER NEWS ITEMS The Buggy Smashed and the Horse Killed - Conditional Endowment for Christian Church Sure - Mrs. Pricilla Jones Dead - A Question of Kinship - Sale of Realty and Timber - Personal Mention. (By Telegraph to Virginian-Pilot.) Suffolk, Va., January 28. - A fast Seaboard Air Line express train collided with Mr. Mitchell Parker and his horse and buggy near Kilby station, two miles west of Suffolk, this afternoon about sunset. The result was disasterous. The horse was thrown some distance and killed immediately, the buggy was smashed to pieces and Mr. Parker himself fatally injured. He died at his home on Kilby street, where he was taken soon after the accident, at 9:15. He was attended by Dr. W.W. Murray and Dr. Frank W. Whitehead, who did all surgery could suggest. Mr. Parker was unconscious sometime before death and was suffering very much from shock. No limbs were broken, for a wonder, but internal injuries and shock were fatal. There were a scalp wound and other hurts. DIDN'T SEE THE TRAIN. Mr. Parker was driving from his mill, in Nansemond county, toward Suffolk. Where the highway and railroad intersect at Kilby trains cannot be seen at a great distance by a person coming toward Suffolk. Besides, it is said that the buggy curtains were drawn. The train was late and Mr. Parker was likely not expecting nor thinking about it. The horse must have been struck first. There are different reports about just what happened to Mr. Parker when he was hit. A passenger said he and parts of the buggy were carried considerable distance on the cow catcher. A well-known railroad man says he has positive information that Parker was not caught on the cow catcher and was thrown only a few feet. The train was stopped as soon as possible. The injured man was picked up and cared for tenderly. [...] ****************************************************************************** SUFFOLK. Mr. Mitchell Parker Narrowly Escapes Being Killed - Death of Mrs. Priscilla Jones. Special to The Landmark. Suffolk, Va., January 28. - At 5:35 o'clock this afternoon as Mr. Mitchell Parker (brother of Mr. J. Louder [sic; Lowder] Parker), both of Suffolk, was on his way to his home here in attempting to drive across the Seaboard railroad near Kilby station, the northbound passenger train, which was behind time, crashed into the vehicle, killing the horse instantly, demolishing the buggy and throwing Mr. Parker about ten feet into the ditch, receiving severe bruises and large scalp wound. As quick as possible the train was stopped and Mr. Parker was taken up and brought to Suffolk. He was then sent to his home on Kilby street and Doctors Murray and Whitehead taken there. Upon examination it was found that no bones were broken; that the scalp wound was not necessarily serious and that if the shock was not too severe he would probably recover. Mr. Parker had let the curtains of his buggy down and could not see the train and when upon the truck it was too late to stop the train in time to avert the disaster. The attending physicians stitched the wound in the scalp and rendered all other necessary aid. Since writing the above we learn that Mr. Parker died from the result of the shock at 9:15 o'clock. He leaves a wife and four children, besides many other relatives and friends who had hoped that he would recover. Mr. Parker was about 57 years old. [...] Mitchell Freemont PARKER, lumberman, b. 19 Jul 1856, Wicomico Co., MD, d. 28 Jan 1902, Suffolk, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 101*), Suffolk, "Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA), Wed., Jan. 29, 1902, clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #52681155, by Michael Vance Baker; "Norfolk (VA) Landmark," Vol. 53, No. 132, Wed., Jan. 29, 1902, p. 6 *Additional information: Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt Photos of his gravestone - added by Wayne Lunde - are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #52681155. He is buried with his widow "Lizzie" L. (BALLARD) PARKER (1875 - 1905). Lizzie left will 29 Sep 1904, proved 12 Apr 1905. (Nansemond Co. WB6:473) His first wife Elizabeth Oliver "Ollie" (SAVAGE) PARKER (1865 - 1898) is buried in a PARKER family cemetery, on Great Fork Rd. Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (NV-IV-19), another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol4.txt Their son Al F. PARKER (1881 - 1952) is buried in Mount Meta Memorial Park, San Benito, Caeron Co., TX. (Find a Grave Memorial #117146547) Find a Grave confuses Ollie with niece Ollie (PARKER ELLIS) MANOS (1893 - 1967), buried in Block G, Lot 40: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt His parents, Thomas M. & Elizabeth (PALMER) PARKER, are buried in Pittsville Cemetery, Pittsville, Wicomico Co., MD. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p626m10o.txt