Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Simmons, Williamson A. October 28, 1894
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Norfolk Virginian October 30, 1894

                                DEATH OF W. A. SIMMONS      

                      Rector Fenchurch Street Public School

Typhoid Fever Ends His Useful Career - Forty Years Connected With Norfolk's 
Public Schools - His Life - Funeral Notice - The Children's Respect

Mr. William A. Simmons died Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock at his home on Church 
Street, aged 45 years. Mr. Simmons about three weeks ago was taken extremely ill 
with pneumonia and so severe was the attack that from the first his life was 
considered in extreme danger. Surrounded by a devoted family, who had at their 
call a host of deeply attached friends, all that medical skill could do was of 
no avail.
Mr. Simmons died as he had lived a consistent member of the Cumberland Street 
Methodist Church and a faithful officer of the Sunday school. He was an 
instructor who loved his avocation and for twenty-five years had been a teacher 
in the Norfolk public schools and for several years past, the rector of the 
Fenchurch Street School.
He was born in this city and at an early age entered the school of the late M.B. 
Rodman, where he was distinguished as a hard student and bright scholar. When he 
reached young manhood he was sent to Columbia College, Washington, D.C., where 
he graduated with high honors. He returned home with his fairly won laurels and 
was appointed a teacher in the public schools and teaching has been his life 
work. How well he has succeeded hundreds of young business men are ready to 
testify.
The deceased was a son of Mr. James Simmons and is survived by his father, wife 
and child and several brothers. Yesterday his room in the Fenchurch Street 
building was draped in emblems of mourning. The funeral will take place from the 
Cumberland Street Methodist Church this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
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SIMMONS - At his residence, No. 159 Church Street, Sunday, October 28th, 1894, 
at 7 o'clock p.m., WILLIAMSON A. SIMMONS, in the 46th year of his age.
The funeral will take place THIS (Tuesday) AFTERNOON, October 30th, at 3:30 
o'clock, from the Cumberland Street M.E. Church. Friends and acquaintances 
respectfully invited to attend.


The Norfolk Landmark October 30, 1894

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