Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Millard Sr., 1949 

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Heart Attack Fatal To Hiccup Sufferer 

  A fatal heart attack, accompanied by recurrent hiccups, struck Millard 
Smith, Sr., 44, while driving his car at Rountree Dairy Farm near here early 
Friday afternoon. 

  According to reports from Virginia Hospital, Smith entered the hospital last 
Monday for treatment of a severe case of hiccups. 

  A hospital staff member stated that "almost everything in the book" was 
tried before the hiccups were retarded and Smith was released a few days 
later. 

  Dr. William N. Eddy, the attending physician, stated that in addition to 
medical methods applied in an attempt to arrest the condition, old-fashioned 
remedies such as breathing into a paper bag, stopping the ears while taking 
nine sips of water, among others, were tried.  Medications intended to relax 
the patient and tight binding of the torso were more professional methods 
used. 

  Which method suceeded in halting the hiccups is not positively known, but 
on Wednesday Smith was released returned to his job at the local dairy. 

  He was reported to be getting along all right when he was taken with the 
hiccups again.  It was while he was headed back to Suffolk and the hospital 
that the heart attack struck him from which he died while being brought here 
by friends for treatment. 

  A member of the hospital staff said Smith was reported to have suffered a 
siege of hiccups lasting six weeks while in residence at Rich Square, N.C., 
last year. 

  Funeral services for Smith will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the 
Baker Funeral Home. 

  Captain Kenneth Johnson of the Salvation Army will conduct the services and 
interment will follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

  Besides his wife, Mrs. Beulah Harrell Smith, he is survived by two sons, 
Millard Smith, Jr., and Billy Gene Smith, both of Nansemond County; two 
grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Artis Lupton and Mrs. Eddie Felton of 
Portsmouth, Mrs. Carrie Bracy of Roxville, N.C., and Mrs. Iris Hoenacker of 
Berwind, West Virginia; a brother, Bela Smith of Kelford, N.C. 


Millard SMITH, Sr., Rountree Dairy laborer, 
b. 19 Apr 1905, Rich Square, Northampton Co., NC*, 
d. 24 Jun 1949, Nansemond Co., 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block W, Lot 32*), Suffolk, 26 Jun 1949, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 26, No. 70, Sun., June 26, 1949, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #15709714. 

His widow (1910-1958) 2m. Roy John ACEY, but is buried in the same lot, 
   which she owned: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

D.Cert. 12860 (Suffolk #161) gives b. Bertie Co., NC. 

His parents, John Lewis & "Addie" Adline V. (JENKINS) SMITH, are buried in 
   a BRACY family cemetery, Eagletown, Northampton Co., NC. 


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