Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hancock, Benjamin October 11, 1904
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Virginian Pilot October 14, 1904

                   TWO ORPHANS STOOD BY FATHER'S GRAVE

        Illness Brought Poverty and the Poorhouse to Benj. Hancock

Benjamin Hancock, thirty-one years old, who died at the city almshouse, was 
buried yesterday at Elmwood Cemetery.  The funeral services, conducted by Rev. 
J.B. Merritt, of the Seamen's Bethel, was attended by only a few patients at the 
almshouse and the two little orphan girls of the dead man.
Hancock had been in bad health for some time and was finally forced to become an 
object of charity, his nearest relatives being too poor to render him 
assistance.
"In my position," said Mr. Merritt last night, "I see many sad sights, but the 
funeral I conducted this evening, with those two little girls standing at my 
side, hardly old enough to appreciate their loss was heart-touching in the 
extreme."

 

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