Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sadler, Edward C., 1939 

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E. C. Sadler Drowns, Car Plunges In Canal 

  Funeral services for E. C. Sadler, 67, who was drowned yesterday afternoon 
when an automobile he was driving plunged into the canal beside the Suffolk-
Portsmouth boulevard, will be held tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock at the 
Hill Funeral Home. 

  Dr. A.L. Franklin will conduct the services and burial will be in the family 
cemetery near Columbia, N.C. 

  The cause of the accident, which occurred about five miles from here, is 
unknown.  A passerby noticing the wheels of a car protruding from the water, 
notified State police.  Sadler was found under the steering wheel.  His watch 
had stopped at 1:12 p.m. 

  No witnesses to the accident have been found, according to State Police 
Officers Perry Williams and J.W. Nottingham, who made the investigation.  It 
was thought that Mr. Sadler, an engineer with the Norfolk Southern for 30 
years, left Suffolk for Norfolk about one o'clock.  His car left the road 
about two miles beyond Magnolia. 

  Dr. G. Richardson Joyner, county coroner, stated that Mr. Sadler met death 
by drowning. 

  Surviving Mr. Sadler are his wife; three sons, Aubrey E., Alvah E., and 
Allison E. Sadler; three daughters, Mrs. Alma Mountcastle, of Wilmington, 
N.C.; Mrs. Antha Cobb, of Columbia, N.C.; a brother, Henry Sadler, of 
Jacksonville, Fla., and two sisters, Mrs. Vera McDaniel and Mrs. Bessie 
Skyles, of Oriental, N.C. 

[photo, captioned:] 
E. C. SADLER 

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Sadler Rites Held At Columbia, N. C. 

  Funeral services for Edward C. Sadler, who lost his life in an accident on 
the Suffolk-Portsmouth boulevard, were held Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock at 
the funeral home of I.O. Hill & Company, conducted by the Rev. A.L. Franklin, 
pastor of the Main St. Methodist Church. 

  During the services Dr. Franklin read the hymns "Lead, Kindly Light," and 
"Nearer My God To Thee."  There were many handsome floral tributes.  The 
casket was covered with a pall of Ascension lilies and red roses. 

  The body was taken to Columbia, N.C., where services were conducted at the 
grave by the Rev. L.B. Bennett, of Creswell, N.C. 

  Active pallbearers were: Waverly Brooks, T.C. Ellis, George Wells, C.H. 
Jones, J.C. Ramsey, W.R. Britton, M. E. Spivey, Mr. Hassen.  Honorary 
pallbearers were friends of the family. 


"Ed" Edward Columbus SADLER, Norfolk-Southern R.R. engineer, 
b. 28 Aug 1882, Hyde Co., NC, drowned in canal 10 Nov 1939, 
interred in the family cemetery, Columbia, Tyrrell Co., NC, 12 Nov 1939, 
marked in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 198, Sat., Nov. 11, 1939, p. 1; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 199, Mon., Nov. 13, 1939, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #190162814. 

D.Cert. 25146 (Sleepy Hole #288) 

His mother, Sarah E. (MARTIN; Mrs. Robert C.) SADLER (1855 - 1902), 
   is buried in Oriental Cemetery, Oriental, Pamlico Co., NC. 


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