Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Duncan, Samuel Byrd Blake March 9, 1935
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Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark March 10, 1935 excerpt

           Occupant of Auto Figuring In Crash Dies of Injuries

     Samuel B.B. Duncan, 21, Not Driver of Car, Investigators Establish

Samuel Byrd Blake Duncan, 21 injured February 16 when the automobile in which he 
was riding crashed into a tree at Newport and Georgia Avenues during a pursuit 
by police, died yesterday morning at 5:15 o'clock.
Detectives investigating the case said yesterday that there was definite proof 
that Duncan could not have been driving the car during the pursuit and pressed 
their search for the driver of the machine. Duncan, police have ascertained 
definitely did not know how to drive a car.
The wrecked car turned out to be one which had been reported by H.W. Sigler, of 
West Thirty-ninth Street, as stolen.
                                 Last Rites Today
Funeral services for young Duncan will be conducted this afternoon at 1:30 
o'clock at the funeral home of E. Lee Cox & Bro., 631 Westover Avenue, by the 
Rev. S. Hugh Bradley, pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church, of which Duncan was a 
member, and the Rev. W.H.T. Squires, D.D., pastor of Glenwood Park Presbyterian 
Church. Burial will be in the family plot in Magnolia Cemetery.
Duncan was a native of South Carolina and had resided in Norfolk since infancy. 
Surviving are his parents, Samuel Byrd and Mrs. Teressa Blake Duncan, and two 
brothers, John G. and Dwight W. Duncan, of Norfolk.

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