Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Knowlton, Allen Folsom August 4, 1932
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Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark August 5, 1932

             MAN SHOOTS SELF TO DEATH IN CITY PARK PAVILION
    Allen F. Knowlton, Widely Known Insurance Agent, Ends Life With Pistol

Allen F. Knowlton, 44, of 217 East Indian River Road, died by his own hand last 
night about 6:30 o'clock in the small pavilion at the east end of City Park.
Knowlton, an agent for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, for the past 12 
years, shot himself through the right temple with a .38 caliber revolver.  Death 
is believed to have been instantaneous.
When discovered, the body was in a kneeling position.  Paul T. Walker, of 718 
Maltby avenue, was driving through the park about 7:30 o'clock with his wife and 
mother when he noticed Knowlton's body and called their attention to it, not 
realizing that Knowlton was dead.  After riding by the spot several times and 
noting that the position of the body had not changed, Mr. Walker stopped the car 
and walked over to investigate.  He was horrified to see blood on Knowlton's 
head and a revolver lying under his right hand as it rested on the pavilion 
bench.
Mr. Walker notified detective headquarters.  Detectives P.W. Adams and Roland 
Matthews conducted a preliminary investigation into the case and notified 
Coroner's Investigator Leon Nowitzky.
Financial troubles are believed to have been the cause of the suicide.
Investigation by the detectives revealed that one of the employees in the park 
heard the shot about 6:30 o'clock, but believed that it was either an automobile 
backfire or a firecracker set off by some boys across the Lafayette River, which 
runs close by the pavilion.
The park was practically empty of visitors at the time of the shooting, the few 
persons in the park at the time being near the Granby Street entrance at Thirty-
fifth Street.  Several minutes after the arrival of the detectives a crowd of 
more than 200 people had gathered at the scene.
Knowlton was well known and popular both in Berkley and in Norfolk.  He was 
active in the civic and social life of Berkley.  A native of Stonington, Me., he 
had lived in this section for the past 35 years.  He was treasurer of Berkley 
Lodge No. 167, A.F. & A.M. and a member of Auld Consistory, Khedive Temple, 
Mystic Shrine.  He also was a member of Memorial Methodist Church, Berkley.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Pearl Morgan Jones Knowlton, he is survived by one son, 
Jimmie G. Knowlton; three sisters, Mrs H.H. Street, of Baltimore; Mrs. J.H. 
Riley, of Washington and Mrs. C.M. Halstead, of Norfolk and one brother Parker 
Knowlton, of Norfolk.
The body was removed to the funeral home of Graham & Sykes, 124 East Berkley 
Avenue.  Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Allen Folsom Knowlton --The body of Mr. Knowlton, of 217 East Indian River road, 
who ended his life Thursday afternoon, will lie in state in the funeral home of 
Graham & Sykes, 124 East Berkley Avenue, until tomorrow afternoon when it will 
be taken to the Memorial Methodist Church, East Berkley Avenue and Dinwiddie 
streets, for funeral services at 3 o'clock.  Burial will be in the family lot in 
Magnolia Cemetery.

Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark August 6, 1932

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