Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bateman, Samuel June 18, 1902
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Virginian Pilot June 19, 1902

                      "PRINT MY DEATH IN THE NEWSPAPERS"

Such Were Last Words of Samuel Bateman, Ex-Confederate Soldier, and Inmate of 
Almshouse, Who Died Yesterday

After a life of 81 years, the last six of which was spent in the Norfolk 
almshouse, Samuel Bateman, a once prosperous citizen of North Carolina, passed 
away yesterday at that institution, and his last words were:
"Print my death in the newspapers so that my old friends may know that I am 
gone."
Very little could be learned of the former life of the dead man, but from the 
meagre facts obtainable, he was once a very well known man in the Old North 
State and had broad lands of fertile farms.
Misfortune was his lot, and gradually his worldly possessions dwindled until at 
last, when old age had overtaken him he was left a public charge.
During the Civil War he wore the gray and fought from '61 to '65 for the Lost 
Cause with conspicuous bravery.
He will be buried today by the almshouse authorities.


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