Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....French, Walter F. May 2, 1901
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Virginian-Pilot, page 3, Saturday, May 4, 1901

A colored deck hand on the steamer W.B. Rogers, of the Bennett Line, named Walter 
F. French, was drowned in the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Thursday near the 
Coinjock bridge. By some unaccountable means he fell from the deck of the steamer 
an hour before the crew of the Rogers recovered his body. The remains were brought 
to Norfolk yesterday norming and was taken charge of by the keeper of the city 
morgue. Frank Gillam, by whom the body was buried in Calvary cemetery yesterday 
afternoon. French is reported to have no relatives living, except an aunt in 
Richmond. The deceased was a native of Spain.

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