Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Harwell, Robert Booth, MD December 28, 1913
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Virginian-Pilot December 29, 1913
Robert Booth Harwell, a well-known and highly esteemed citizen of Norfolk. died 
at his home, 525 Clay avenue, yesterday morning at 3 o'clock after an illness of 
about a week.
He was born in Dinwiddie county, Va., May 11, 1844, the son of Laban and 
Elizabeth Harwell. He came to Norfolk in 1866, and, from that time until his 
death, held the admiration and love of many friends. He was connected with the 
Norfolk Virginian until its consolidation with The Pilot, after which he was 
route agent for the Virginian-Pilot in Brambleton until about a year ago, when 
he was forced to retire from active life on account of ill health. He had a 
severe stroke of paralysis about a week ago, which resulted in his death.
A man of sincere religious convictions, he was a consistent member of McKendree 
Methodist church and was always active in every phase of religious work. He was 
for 40 years a local minister in the Virginia Conference. He was educated for a 
physician, having graduated from the Medical College of Baltimore, but never 
practiced his profession. He was a member of Pickett-Buchanan Camp, Confederate 
Veterans.
The funeral will be held from McKendree church today at 2:30 p.m., and will be 
conducted by Rev. George W. Jones, presiding elder of Norfolk district.
The pallbearers will be L. B. Acree, J. T. Eggleston, E. O. Taylor, J. G. 
Parker, R. P. Howe and C. L. Hudgins.
Interment will be in Elmwood cemetery. Pickett-Buchanan Camp, Confederate 
Veterans, will be present to pay their last tribute of respect to their dead 
comrade.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rosa Virginia Harwell; four daughters, Lula B., 
Mattie and Grace Harwell and Mrs. F. A. Blankenship of Norfolk; four sons, A. 
L., L. M., and R. A. Harwell of Norfolk, and J. V. Harwell of New York; a 
sister, Mrs. Ida F. Jackson, and a brother, J. E. Harwell, both of Petersburg.

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