Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hall, John Winthrop January 3, 1933
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Virginian-Pilot January 5, 1933
Hall Decapitated By Flying Bar At Sea, Says Dispatch
John W. Hall, officer on the Steamship Manhattan and native of Norfolk, was 
accidentally killed aboard the liner Tuesday while working to set the ship right 
for a storm, according to an Associated Press dispatch yesterday from Cobh, 
Irish Free State, where the vessel docked yesterday.
A heavy storm broke during trip, it was reported, the wind blowing at the rate 
of 80 miles an hour, and the order was given to batten down the ship. Hall went 
to one of the winches and while working there was struck by a flying bar which 
decapitated him.
Funeral services and burial were held at sea.
Twenty-nine years old, Hall was born in Norfolk, the son of the late Charles E. 
and Mrs. Annie W. Hall. When his father died 15 years ago, the family moved to 
Richmond.

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