Norfolk City-Nansemond-Suffolk City County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Collins, William Henry  June 13, 1916
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Virginian Pilot, June 14 & 16, 1916
Captin W. H. Collins, surviving member of the firm of Batchelder & Collins, 
was killed in an automobile accident near Suffolk yesterday afternoon. In a 
car driven by Clevelnad Staylor, he was going through the yards of the 
Nansemond River Brick and Tile Company. The road was on the edge of an 
embankment about 10 feet high. The car is supposed to have skidded or the soft 
clay road to have started a landslide. When the machine turned turtle, Captain 
Collins was pinned beneath the chassis and fatally injured. Staylor was also 
injured.

The two injured men were quickly extricated and rushed to St. Andrew's 
Hospital, Suffolk. Captain Collins died a few minutes after he reached the 
hospital, at 12:50 o'clock.

He had left Norfolk at 9 o'clock yesterday morning to attend to business in 
Suffolk. He was president of the Nansemond River Brick and Tile Company, and 
frequently visited the plant. 

As soon as news of the accident reached Norfolk, his son-in-law, E. W. 
Whitehead, manager of Batchelder & Collins and vice-president of the Nansemond 
River Brick and Tile Company, hurried to Suffolk. Captain Collin's body was 
brought to Norfolk by automobile.

The first news of the accident that reached his family was contained in press 
dispatches. When telephone for a confirmation of his reported death, they were 
prostrated.

Captain Collins had lived in Norfolk since 1867, when the firm of Batchelder & 
Collins was first founded. He had come here immediately after the Civil War, 
in 1865, but had spent two years in Texas before making Norfolk his permanent 
home. He was a native of Fairport, N. Y. In his long business career in 
Norfolk and in Nansemond County, Captain Collins had won a host of friends. He 
was always prominent in the industrial development of the city.

He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Walter Thomas of Tyron, N. C., and two 
daughters, Mrs. E. W. Whitehead and Miss Grace Collins, both of Norfolk. He 
had been for many years a member of the First Presbyterian Church.

The funeral will take place at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning from his home, 715 
East Raleigh Avenue. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Other 
arrangements for the funeral had not been completed last night.

Virginian-Pilot, June 16, 1916. Funeral of Captain Collins.

The funeral of Captain William H. Collins took place yesterday at 11 a.m., at 
First Presbyterian Church, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Stuart Nye Hutchison, 
and was largely attended. The pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church, Rev. W. H. 
T. Squires, together with the elders of the church attended in a body. There 
was a magnificent display of floral offerings. Burial was in Cedar Grove, the 
pall-bearers being C. E. Worrell, S. H. Allen, J. T. Moreland, B. F. 
Batchelder, Dr. R. E. Whitehead, Frank T. Clark, A. B. Schwarzhopf, and W. T. 
Gilchrist.

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