Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Austin, D B October 30, 1908
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Virginian Pilot October 31,1908

News have been received here of the sudden death from apoplexy of the Rev. D. 
B. Austin, a member of the Virginia Conference, at 6:30 o’clock last night in 
Courtland, Southampton County, where he resided with his family. The 
particulars in regard to his death are very meager. He fell in the street and 
was taken to a physician’s office nearby, but on examination it was found that 
he was already dead.

Mr. Austin was born on Roanoke Island in 1845 and was raised as a fisherman and 
boatman. He entered the service of the Confederate Army in March 1863, and was 
captured Feb 12, 1864,  and remained a prisoner until the close of the war.

Mr. Austin was licensed to preach by the quarterly conference of Dare Circuit, 
N.C., in 1877, entered the United States life –saving service in 1878, serving 
with it nearly thirteen years and rose to the position of captain of the 
lifesaving station. He was admitted on trial in the in the Virginia Conference 
in 1891, and was appointed junior preacher to Granby Street now Epworth station 
and Huntersville, Norfolk, where he remained three years and served a number of 
the country charges on the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Petersburg districts and 
Wesley Church, Petersburg.

At the time of his death Mr. Austin was closing his second year on the 
Southampton circuit, Portsmouth district, where he had a most prosperous 
career. He is survived by his wife and several children. His remains will be 
brought to Norfolk Sunday via the Southern Railway, and interment will be in 
Elmwood Cemetery, the services being conducted by his presiding elder, Rev. R. 
M. Chandler.


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