Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Forbes, Garland August 26, 1911
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Virginian Pilot August 27, 1911

FORBES - Suddenly in South Norfolk, August 26, 1911, at 10 o'clock a.m., 
GARLAND FORBES, son of Mrs. Carry Cooper Peele and the late Charles Forbes, 
aged 10 years.  
Funeral from the residence in Commerce Street, South Norfolk, THIS (Sunday) 
AFTERNOON at 4 o'clock.  Interment in Magnolia Cemetery.  Friends invited.
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                     MOTHER SEES SON CRUSHED BY TRAIN
       On Way To Buy Bread Garland Forbes Meets Death Under Locomotive

Waiting for him to go to a grocery store and bring home a loaf of bread, 
Mrs. C.E. Peele yesterday morning saw her twelve-year-old son, Garland 
Forbes, crushed to death beneath the wheels of a Norfolk and Western 
locomotive.
The accident occurred about 10 o'clock.  Mrs. Peele, who lives in South 
Norfolk, near the tracks of the Norfolk and Western Railway, sent Garland to 
Lawrence's grocery on the opposite side of the tracks.  Two trains were 
approaching in opposite directions but the boy did not see but one.  He 
waited until one train had passed, then he started across the track.  He was 
caught by the second train, his body badly mangled beneath the locomotive 
and dragged for about fifty feet.
The mother, helpless to aid her boy, was the horrified and only witness of 
the sad accident.
Acting Coroner Poindexter and a jury held an inquest and rendered a verdict 
of accidental killing.  The jury was composed of J.L. Warden, C.P. Rogers, 
Joseph Hutchings, Rev. R.B. Scott, J.R. Sturges, W.J. Burkett and W.T. 
Sawyer.
Walter Peele, the boy's stepfather, is employed at Colonna's Marine Railway.

Additional Comments:
Magnolia
According to tombstone the child was 9 yrs. 9mo. and 4 days old.

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