Newport News City-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hollowell, Sidney D., 1960 

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Police Are Still Checking Suicide Theory in Road Death 

  Nansemond County police today were not prepared to say whether the death 
yesterday morning of Sidney Daughtery [sic; Daughtrey] Hollowell was 
premeditated or accidental. 

  Hollowell, who was running away from the pistol whipping of two Whaleyville 
women, crashed into the trailer section of a tractor-trailer yesterday morning 
at 5:05 o'clock and was killed immediately. 

  The two women, Mrs. Josephine King, 33, and her mother, Mrs. Ruth King, were 
treated for cuts and bruises of their heads and shoulders. 

  The women swore out a warrant against Hollowell for assualt and battery with 
intent to kill after police were notified of their presence by hospital 
officials. 

  The women knew nothing of Hollowell's death at this time. 

  Deputies Hurley Jones and O.O. Woolford investigated the case.  The officers 
reported they found a pistol in the King's home, which had two shells on which 
the hammer had been snapped.  They said the room was spattered with blood. 

  Hollowell, who was employed by the Newport News Shipyard, moved to 
Whaleyville from Hampton.  He lived in a small house on the King property. 

  He was a veteran of War World II and was a member of Ballard's Bridge Baptist 
Church, in Chowan County, N.C. 

  Hollowell, a widower, had been visiting the younger Mrs. King, who is 
separated from her husband. 

  Hollowell was said by one of the injured women to have become angered when 
Mrs. Josephine King's husband called on his wife Monday night.  It was shortly 
after the visit that Hollowell beat the two women. 

  Hollowell's wife died about two years ago and his son lived with him. 

  He was a son of Charlie D. and Mrs. Florence Ward Hollowell of Chowan 
County, N.C. 

  A funeral service will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Baker Funeral 
Home by the Rev. Archie C. Crockett, pastor of the First Friends Church, 
Newport News.  Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery in Newport News. 

  Besides his son, Sidney D. Hollowell, Jr., he is survived by his step-
mother, Mrs. Josephine Hollowell* of Edenton, N.C.; five sisters, Mrs. T.A. 
Berryman of Hobbsville, N.C., Mrs. Leroy Jordan of Whaleyville, Mrs. Willie 
Byrum of Tyner, N.C.; Mrs. Baker Byrum of Sunbury, N.C., and Mrs. Bill Reed 
of Windfall, N.C.; and three brothers, Cebert Hollowell of Hickory, N.C., 
Fernando Hollowell of Hertford, N.C., and Clarence Hollowell of Iowa. 

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Sidney D. Hollowell Rites Held Thursday 

  Funeral services for Sidney D. Hollowell were conducted Thursday at the 
Baker Funeral Home by the Rev. Archie C. Crockett of the First Friends 
Meeting, Newport News.  Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News. 

  The casket was covered with a pall of peach gladioli, lavender asters and 
yellow chrysanthemums. 

  Pallbearers were R.G. Alcot, S.W. Bost, John Fiddner, R.C. Grigsby, R.R. 
Johnson and K.R. Leaman. 


Sidney Daughtrey HOLLOWELL, of near Whaleyville, NNS&DD welder, 
b. 12 Dec 1921, Chowan Co., NC, wrecked 9 Aug 1960, Hwy. 460, 
interred in Greenlawn Memorial Park*, Newport News, 11 Aug 1960, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 38, No. 189, Wed., Aug. 10, 1960, p. 3; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 38, No. 191, Fri., Aug. 12, 1960, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Dawn Bilik (prev. Stewart) - 
   is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #84261888. 

D.Cert. 22029 (Chuckatuck #49) states his death was an accident. 

His parents are buried in Ballards Bridge Baptist Church Cemetery, Tyner, 
   Chowan Co., NC. 

His step-mother, Josephine (WHITE) HOLLOWELL (1912 - 1983), seems actually 
   the estranged first wife of his brother Cebert Lee HOLLOWELL.  She appears 
   in the 1950 Census - Middle Dist., Chowan Co., NC - as the wife of their 
   father Charlie HOLLOWELL.  She is buried in Beaver Hill Cemetery, Edenton, 
   Chowan Co., NC. 

Cebert (1909 - 1984) is buried with his third wife and her first husband & 
   parents in the LANKFORD-BLYTHE family cemetery on Sedley Rd. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-53):
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

Find a Grave Memorial #122600288 gives Cebert BLYTHE (1909 - 1944). 


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