Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Peter April 11, 1894
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Norfolk Virginian April 12, 1894

                         A Civil War veteran

A phone message was received from the Navy Yard this morning at 12:30, saying 
that just after midnight Mr. Peter Smith, a ship keeper in the yard, who lives 
on Brewer Street near the market, in this city, had a fall and received injuries 
which would likely prove fatal.
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                            Died From His Injuries    

The Virginian yesterday stated that Mr. Peter Smith, a ship keeper at the navy 
yard, had received injuries from a fall that would likely prove fatal.  About 11 
o'clock one of the watchmen on the tug Speedwell, in the navy yard, discovered a 
man on the floor of the boiler room of the tug and immediately called for 
assistance. Investigation showed that the unfortunate man was Peter Smith, ship 
keeper of the steamer Monongahela, and that he had left the steamer for some 
purpose to go aboard of the tug, and in the darkness had stumbled and fallen 
through the hatch of the boiler room to the floor below. Medical assistance was 
summoned, but nothing could be done, and Smith died in a short while. He had 
been employed at the yard about a year. He was 51 years of age and leaves a wife 
and five children. He was a member of the Worden Post,, Grand Army of the 
Republic. The funeral will take place Sunday.

Norfolk Virginian Friday April 13, 1894
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                        Funeral of Mr. Smith

The funeral of Mr. Peter Smith, the ship keeper at the navy yard who was killed 
by a fall, took place at St. Mary's Catholic Church Sunday afternoon and was 
conducted by Rev. Father McCarthy. The interment was in St. Mary's Cemetery. 
Worden Post No. 25, G.A.R. and the Screwmen's Benevolent Association, to which 
the deceased belonged, were in attendance.

Norfolk Virginian April 17, 1894

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