Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Frank, John March 19, 1882
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Norfolk Virginian March 21, 1882 

                            Accidental Drowning

About 10 o'clock last Sunday night John Frank, a Russian-Finn, aged apparently 
about 22 years of age and belonging to the British bark Francis Herbert, Captain 
Hartigan, now loading cotton here, fell overboard from a tug lying at the foot 
of Commerce Street and was drowned before help could reach him. The police were 
notified and the body was recovered and attempts made to resuscitate the man but 
life was extinct. The remains were taken to the station house and City Coroner, 
Dr. John M. Galt, held an inquest over them yesterday morning, the jury 
consisting of N.F. Murden, George Scultatus, Wm. H. Gray, J.A. Caffee, J.S. 
Cotton and W.L. Brown, rendering a verdict of accidental drowning.
It is supposed that the deceased had been drinking and mistook his vessel and 
got overboard in trying to get off the tug.
The Rev. Mr. Merritt, pastor of the Seaman's Bethel, held funeral services 
yesterday over the remains.

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