Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hodges, Thaddeus R., Capt. 1889
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Norfolk Landmark May 1, 1889
A BODY FOUND IN HAMPTON ROADS.
The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad steamer, Old Point Comfort, 
which arrived here yesterday morning, brought the remains of a white man which 
had been found floating in Hampton Roads between Old Point and Craney Island. 
The body was put on the wharf and the coroner, Dr. E. V. Newton, was notified. 
The coroner, after viewing the remains decided that an inquest was unnecessary 
and issued a certificate for burial. The body had been in the water a long time 
and was very much disfigured. A search of the clothing revealed the fact that 
the remains were those of Captain Thad. Hodges, of the schooner Two Brothers, 
which it is supposed was lost during the gale of the 6th and 7th.
The only thing by which the body could be identified was a receipt from T. R. 
Cooke & Co. to Thaddeus Hodges, of the sloop Two Brothers, which was made out in 
February. In addition to the receipt, there was found in a pocketbook in one of 
his pockets $25.60, most of which was in paper and badly damaged. Part of the 
money was paid to Mr. C. B. Oliver for the necessary expenses of burying the 
body, which will be done today.

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