Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Marr, Barron Hope January 15, 1893 ************************************************ 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: Suzy Ward Fleming wardflemin@aol.com July 18, 2015, 10:05 pm Norfolk Landmark, July 28th 1905 Colonel R.A. Marr Visits Norfolk on Sad Mission Colonel R.A. Marr of Lexington, Va., is in the city for a few days and while here will be the guest of Mr. R.H. Baker, Jr., in York Street. Colonel Marr having resigned his professorship at Virginia Military Institute to accept a chair in the engineering department of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, will soon move his family to Blacksburg. This change in residence is the occasion of his visit to Norfolk, was his mission here to transfer the remains of his little son, Barron Hope Marr, who died in 1893, at the age of 4 years, from Lexington to a final resting place in Norfolk. The interment took place yesterday morning and the remains of the lovely and attractive child whose early death was a lifelong sorrow to his devoted parents, now have a place by the side of his distinguished grandfather, Captain James Barron Hope, in Elmwood Cemetery. Additional Comments: Elmwood Note****Newspaper and Cemetery Records state died in 1893-Stone says 1894*** File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/m/marr8847gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb