Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Kight, Alonzo September 5, 1885
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Norfolk Virginian September 6, 1885

                         Fell and Killed Himself

A white man named Alonza Kight, a carpenter by trade, while at work on the 
Lambert's Point coal pier yesterday morning, fell and struck on his head. His 
skull was crushed and he died almost instantly. He was from Camden County, N.C. 
and boarded on Water Street, but his remains had not been brought in up to a 
late hour last night.
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                           Burial of Alonzo Kight    

The body of Alonzo Kight, who was killed by falling from the Lambert's Point 
coal pier, as stated in this paper Sunday, was brought to Norfolk at 6:30 p.m. 
on the cars after the coroner's inquest and given in charge of Mr. Hall, 
undertaker, who buried the body at Elmwood Cemetery. The Norfolk and Western 
Railroad Company, which is not neglectful in caring for those who are killed or 
injured in its service, made the earliest possible arrangement to give the 
unfortunate man decent burial. An officer of that corporation assures us he was 
entirely worthy of it.

Norfolk Virginian September 8, 1885


Additional Comments:
Name spelled two ways
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