Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Byrd, Richard Willing Sr. June 21, 1879
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Norfolk Virginian June 22 , 1879

                       Death of Richard Willing Byrd
 
It becomes our painful duty this morning to chronicle the death of this truly 
estimable gentleman. The sad event occurred at his residence in Brambleton last 
evening at 9:45. Mr. Byrd was well and favorably known in this city. He has been 
in delicate health for the past six months and since the accidental death of his 
only son, who was killed by a street car on the second of May last, he has been 
rapidly failing in health. His nervous system in sympathy with his mental 
distress added to the terrible grief of a spinal disease which had fastened 
itself upon him, culminated in his death at the hour above stated. He leaves an 
affectionate and distressed wife and four little children, all girls, together 
with a host of friends to mourn his loss. "May the sods rest lightly o'er his 
grave." His funeral will take place from his late residence in Brambleton on 
tomorrow, Monday, at 4 p.m.
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The obsequies of the late Richard W. Byrd, whose death was announced in our last 
issue, took place yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the residence of the 
deceased in Brambleton and was attended by a large number of the friends of the 
departed gentleman and his bereaved family. The Rev. Calvin S. Blackwell 
delivered a few appropriate remarks and...........(print missing)..............

At the conclusion of the impressive services, the remains were conducted to 
Elmwood Cemetery and interred with the usual solemn rites, the following 
gentlemen acting as pallbearers: B.P. Loyall,  F.M. Hyman, C. Billups, W.H. 
Broughton, David Corprew, Chas. Tyler, John S. Tucker, Wm. S. Wilkinson. The 
services at the grave were witnessed by a number of sorrowing acquaintances of 
the family who beheld the burial with that sadness which the departure of a good 
man ever awakens in the breasts of appreciative friends.

Norfolk Virginian June 24 , 1879

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