Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sledge, Oliver Amos May 20, 1902 ************************************************ 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: Dorothy Strawhand https://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008405 January 23, 2020, 7:50 pm Virginian Pilot May 21, 1902 SLEDGE - Tuesday, May 20, 1902, at his late residence, No. 406 Fairfax avenue, at 7:20 o'clock p.m., OLIVER AMOS SLEDGE, aged 57 years. Notice of funeral later. ************************************************************************** Mr. Oliver A. Sledge departed this life at his home, 406 Fairfax avenue, Ghent, at 7:20 o'clock Tuesday night after an illness of ten days, in the 58th year of his age. The deceased was well known and highly esteemed in Norfolk, where he had for a number of years resided and for a number of years was engaged in the peanut business - for a long period connected with the Columbia Peanut Company. He was regarded as one of the best posted men on peanuts in Virginia. He is survived by a widow and four children, two sons and two daughter. The funeral will be solemnized from the Freemason Street Baptist church at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. Virginian Pilot May 22, 1902 Additional Comments: Elmwood File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/s/sledge17617gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb