Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Batts, Joseph William  March 7, 1906
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Public Ledger, Fri., March 9, 1906

Mr. Batts’ Funeral 
There Was an Exceedingly Beautiful Display of Floral Tributes

The funeral of Joseph William Batts, who died at this home, on Twelfth Street, 
Wednesday, aged 37 years, took place at noon today from the residence, and was 
largely attended. The service was conducted by Rev. William A. Barr, rector of 
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. There was a very beautiful display of floral 
tributes, wrought in roses, carnations, lilies of the valley, sweet peas, 
lilac, swansons, narcissus, violets, fresias, smilax, asparagus and maiden hair 
fern and other flowers and greenery. A large and magnificent wreath, standing 
five feet high, was sent from the attaches of the Norfolk offices of the 
Atlantic Coast Line Railway; a lovely pillow was sent from the attaches of the 
Pinner’s Point division of the A.C.L. Railway, and a very handsome “Gates Ajar” 
was sent from the Conclave of Heptasophs No. 252, of which he was a member. The 
deceased had for eighteen years been connected with the Atlantic Coast Line 
Railway. The interment was in Elmwood Cemetery, the flowing being the pall-
bearers: R.R. Fitchett, W.J. Carter, A.C. Serpell, J.P. Weston, E.W. Dashield, 
G.W. Cherry, E.N. Morris, W.J. Bidgood and M. Wagenheim.


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