Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Broughton, Charles H. May 5, 1881
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Norfolk Virginian May 6, 1881

            Death of Mr. Charles H. Broughton

It is with poignant grief that we chronicle the sudden and entirely unlooked 
for death of Mr. Charles H. Broughton, one of the best known and most highly 
esteemed young men in our city.  Mr. Broughton last night attended, 
unaccompanied, the fair of the Norfolk City Guard, in the armory of the 
Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, Academy of Music Building. He had been at the 
fair for some time, when beginning to feel unwell he started to leave the 
hall and had gotten as far as the flight of steps leading from the fair 
room, which it will be remembered, is on the third floor of the building.  
Reaching the steps he made a motion to descend, but seeming to feel unable 
to go further alone, he said, addressing some of the members of the City 
Guard who were standing near, "If some of you gentlemen will help me down 
I'll be all right when I get in the fresh air."  With this, two of the 
members of the company, Sergeant Kable and Mr. Lassiter, sprang to his 
assistance and helped Mr. Broughton to the street, whence, with the aid of 
Messrs. W.A. Graves, Jr., R.H. Tebault and Frank Grandy, Mr. Broughton, who 
was now unconscious, was carried to an upper room at Jones' restaurant, 
directly opposite and everything done for him that the suddenness of the 
attack would allow or the painful anxiety of kind friends could suggest.  
Mr. Broughton was seized with violent convulsions very shortly after 
reaching the restaurant and these continued with few intermissions up to the 
time of his death, which took place about half past 11 o'clock, or about an 
hour after he first became ill and which it is thought resulted from 
apoplexy.
Before his dissolution, Drs. James D. Galt and Cannon were in attendance 
upon the deceased; various restoratives were resorted to, but without 
effect, the sufferer having neither spoken nor given any sign of 
consciousness after reaching Main street from the fairrooom.  Dr. S.S. 
Keeling and Dr. W.T. Sutton arrived just subsequently to his death.
The event, which it is our sorrowful duty to chronicle, is one of the 
saddest we have ever known.  A young man apparently in the flush of health 
and strength, of excellent habits, an exemplary son and brother, and 
universally beloved to be thus cut off, with scarcely a moment's warning--- 
this is indeed one of the inscrutable visitations of a Divine Providence 
which we must bow to but cannot comprehend.  To his grief stricken relatives 
we offer our sincerest condolence.  Mr. Broughton's remains were carried to 
the residence of his family, on Holt Street, at one o'clock this morning. He 
was in the 34th year of his age, and a son of the late Thomas G. Broughton 
of this city.  He had at the time of his death been for a number of years 
employed in the commission house of Charles Reid & Son, and had also long 
been the secretary of the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, of which company he 
was a member.  Due notice of the funeral will be given hereafter.
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The funeral of Mr. Chas. H. Broughton will take place at 5 o'clock tomorrow 
afternoon from the First Presbyterian Church.  The funeral will be attended 
with full ranks and in full uniform by the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, 
Captain J.W. Gilmer of which company the deceased was a member, and by the 
Norfolk City Guard, Captain C.A. Nash.  We stated in our issue of yesterday 
that Mr. Broughton was in the 34th year of his age at the the of his death.  
This was an error as he had not quite attained his 31st year.

Norfolk Virginian May 7, 1881

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