Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Boettner, John October 11, 1884
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Norfolk Virginian October 12, 1884
On Friday night, Mr. John Boettner, an old German, living at No. 72 Howard 
street, was found dead in his house. On Friday morning, George, a crippled son 
of the deceased, left his home between 6 and 7 o’clock and went to look for 
work. When the son left home, the old gentleman was sick in bed. George returned 
between 8 and 9 o’clock at night and found his father dead. George immediately 
notified the Coroner, but under a late ordinance of the Councils, regulating the 
holding of Coroners’ inquests, nothing could be done, and the body had to lie in 
the house all night with no prospects of a burial. The family, consisting of 
father and three children, are in very destitute circumstances, but two of the 
children have not been home for some days, leaving the crippled son George to 
look out for and support his father. George had no money to bury his father and 
had to call on the city to do so.

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