Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....James, Martha Virginia Brinson January 23, 1943
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot January 24, 1943 (partial)

                       CRUELLY MURDERED IN TRAIN BERTH
                    
           Slayer of Martha Virginia Brinson James Sought in Oregon

Eugene, Ore., Jan. 23 - A scream before dawn today in berth No. 13 of a speeding 
train led to the discovery of the nightgown clad body of a beautiful 21-year-old 
Virginia girl, bride of a Navy ensign.  Her throat had been slashed with a crude 
knife.
The victim was Mrs. Martha Virginia Brinson James, a native of Norfolk, Va., 
whose husband, Ensign Richard F. James, had been compelled by crowded traveling 
conditions to take another and earlier section of the same train. 
The body of Mrs. James lay in the Lane County morgue tonight while her grief 
stricken husband backtracked here from Klamath Falls, where he was told of the 
tragedy, to claim it.

                     Body To Be Brought Here For Funeral

Mrs. Martha Virginia Brinson James was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur G. 
Brinson, of Algonquin Park, Norfolk, who were in a state of near collapse last 
night. 
A native of Norfolk, Mrs. James graduated from Maury High School and attended 
the Norfolk Division, College of William and Mary, and Sweet Briar College. She 
was married in Norfolk last September 19 to Ensign Richard Floyd James, Naval 
Reserve aviator, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mapp James, of Nassawadox. He 
attended the University of Virginia.
Survivors include Mrs. James mother, the former Miss Grace Hart; her father, who 
is eastern district manager for the Logan & Kanawha Coal Company and prominently 
identified with civic activities; two younger sisters, Grace Anne Brinson  and 
Mary Jane Brinson; her paternal grandmother, Mrs. Julia A. Brinson, of 
Grantsboro, N.C. and her maternal grandmother, Mrs. W.V. Hart, of Norfolk.

Complete story of incident in Norfolk Virginian Pilot January 24, 1943

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               Martha Virginia James Rites This Afternoon

Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Virginia Brinson James, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. W.G. Brinson, of Norfolk, and wife of Ensign Richard James, who was slashed 
to death a week ago yesterday while she slept in a West Coast train, will be 
held at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the First Christian Church, Disciples.
Mrs. James body arrived here yesterday and was taken to the Hollomon-Brown 
Funeral Home and later to the Brinson home.
The Rev. C.M. Gordon, D.D., pastor of the church, will conduct the services, 
assisted by the Rev. Edward Rees, D.D., pastor of Ghent Methodist Church. Burial 
will be in Elmwood Cemetery.

Norfolk Virginian Pilot January 31, 1943  


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