Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Corbell, Harry W. November 14, 1909
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Virginian Pilot November 16, 1909

CORBELL - At his residence, 411 Colley Avenue, Sunday, November 14th, at 2 p.m., 
HARRY W. CORBELL, aged 31 years.
The funeral will take place from the Colley Memorial Presbyterian Church 
TUESDAY, November 16th, at p.m. Friends of the family invited to attend.
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                       ENDS LIFE AFTER ATTENDING CHURCH

          W.H. Corbell, Despondent Because Of Ill Health, Shoots Himself

Continued ill health, causing despondency, is the reason assigned for the act of 
W.H. Corbell of No. 411 Colley Ave., a brick contractor, in taking his own life, 
by shooting himself with a pistol, Sunday afternoon about 3 o'clock.  Mr. 
Corbell was alone in a room when the rash deed was committed, his wife being the 
first to make the discovery.  It is thought that the deceased bought the weapon 
Saturday for the purpose of ending his life.
Friends who have known him intimately are of the opinion that the deceased 
killed himself while temporarily insane, superinduced by extremely bad health, 
which has continued for eighteen months or more.  Mr. Corbell attended Sunday 
school at the Centenary Methodist Church and when he went home he complained of 
feeling badly. Immediately after dinner he went upstairs and it was then that 
the report of the pistol was heard by his wife.  The coroner and the Second 
Police Precinct were notified of the suicide.
The deceased was 31 years old and was well known in Norfolk.  His widow, who was 
formerly Miss Minnie Traylor; his father, W.R. Corbell; a brother, W.W. Corbell 
and two sisters, Mrs. Clara P. Lynch of Malden, Mass. and Mrs. Herbert Jones of 
Norfolk, survive.
W.W. Corbell, the brother, who was out of the city at the time, returned 
yesterday afternoon.  Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock 
from Colley Memorial Presbyterian Church, conducted by Dr. Miner and Dr. 
Robertson, both of whom were warm personal friends of the deceased.  The 
interment will take place at Cedar Grove.


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Harry W. Corbell on tombstone

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