Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, John February 19, 1882
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Robert Woolfitt http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008401 April 30, 2026, 9:16 pm

Norfolk Virginian February 21, 1882
                        DEATH FROM INJURIES RECEIVED.
On Sunday morning last, the schooner Ruth Shaw, Captain James McElwee, of 
Bridgeton, N. J., bound from New York to Richmond, with a cargo of hay, put into 
this port, having on board one of her crew, a white seaman, by the name of John 
Jones, who had, while walking the deck about 11 a.m. on the preceding day, while 
the schooner was off Winter Quarters Shoal, been struck on the head by the 
foreboom and his skull fractured. The United States marine hospital ambulance 
proceeded to Fort Norfolk, where the injured man was landed and conveyed to the 
Hospital of St. Vincent de Paul where, after continuing in an unconscious 
condition for some hours, he died at 11 p.m. Sunday night. His remains will be 
buried here.

Additional Comments:
From his obituary, his death was February 19.  From the death register, it was the 
20th.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/j/jones19687nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/

File size: 1.5 Kb