Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dewberry, Joseph Elvin July 15, 1932
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Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark July 16, 1932

              BABY, 11 MONTHS OLD, STRANGLES SELF, BREAKS NECK

Joseph Elvin Dewberry, Left Alone for Few Moments, Is Victim of Unusual 
Accident

Eleven-months-old Joseph Elvin Dewberry, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Dewberry, 
of Doziers Corner, Norfolk County, was the victim of a tragic accident 
yesterday morning about 10:30 o'clock.  While his mother and father were in 
a field near the house the baby, which had been left in a crib, succeeded in 
getting his head between the lid of the crib and the edge of the little 
railing upon which the lid rests.
The child was still alive when his parents found him, but died while they 
were taking him to a physician.  According to Norfolk County Coroner L.C. 
Ferebee, death resulted from strangulation and a broken neck.  The child's 
neck is believed to have been broken in his struggles to free himself.
The child had been left alone only a few minutes.  Mrs. Dewberry had gone to 
the field to carry some seed potatoes to her husband, and returned to find 
the infant with his head wedged under the crib lid.
The child is survived, besides his parents, by a brother, Arthur Thomas 
Dewberry, Jr.; one sister, Martha Anne Dewberry and his paternal 
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dewberry.  
The body was removed to the funeral home of Graham & Sykes, Jackson and 
Jefferson Streets, South Norfolk, where funeral services will be conducted 
this afternoon t 4 o'clock.  Burial will be in the family lot in Magnolia 
Cemetery.


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