Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hawkins, Lee April 19, 1890
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Norfolk Virginian Sunday April 27, 1890

                           A MYSTERY SOLVED

A Dead Man's Body Recovered at the End of Yarmouth Street Floating in the 
Water

In last Tuesday's Virginian mention was made of hearing cries for help, at 
11:30 o'clock Saturday night, by the citizens living in the vicinity of the 
northern end of Yarmouth street, where that thoroughfare runs into Smith's 
or "Put In" Creek.  Persons living in the vicinity were led to believe that 
some one had been drowned, and Lieutenant Quimby, who lives just across the 
creek, reported the matter to the station house. Officers J.O. Pitt and 
Heppel made an examination of the creek last Sunday and endeavored to find a 
body, as they also believed that some one had been drowned.  Their 
examination was without result, however, and nothing more was thought of the 
matter until yesterday afternoon.  When Lieutenant Quimby was crossing the 
creek in a row boat he saw the body of a white man floating on the surface.  
The police were at once notified and on reaching the scene Officer J.O. Pitt 
recognized the body to be that of a young man about twenty years of age, 
named Lee Hawkins, who resided in Berkley and has been employed on the 
Atlantic and Danville road as an engineer.  Hawkins was very much 
intoxicated last Saturday night and parties who saw him about nine o'clock 
near the corner of Cove and Avon Streets say he had lost his senses 
entirely.  It is supposed that he wandered in his intoxication and walked 
overboard from the wharf at the end of Yarmouth street and that in his 
struggles he made the great outcry which awakened the neighbors.  Coroner 
Newton was notified and after giving permission to remove the body to Hall's 
undertaking establishment, decided to hold an inquest there this morning.  
No marks of violence were discovered on the man's body last night with the 
exception of a slight flesh wound behind the man's ear, which, it is 
thought, may have been caused by a crab bite.  The dead man's father was 
notified and came over from his home in Berkley.
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                  The Funeral of the Late Mr. Lee Hawkins

The funeral of the late Mr. Lee Hawkins, whose death by drowning has been 
before announced in The Virginian, took place Sunday afternoon from the 
residence of his father in Liberty street, Berkley, and was largely 
attended.  Thence the remains were taken to the Magnolia Cemetery, where the 
funeral services were conducted by Rev. W.C. Vadin, pastor of the Chestnut 
Street M.E. Church.  The following gentlemen were the pallbearers:  Messrs. 
Will Doherty, Ed Lindsay, Claud Foreman, Oscar Diggs, Dick Marshall, Kenny 
Woodhouse, Will Borden, Woody Moore.

Norfolk Virginian April 29, 1890



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