Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smithson, Miles G. Sr. January 11, 1913
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Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark Monday January 13, 1913

Information was received yesterday of the death of Miles G. Smithson, which 
occurred Saturday evening at 9:40 o'clock at Colorado Springs, Col., where he 
had gone three months ago for his health.  He was 36 years old.
Before being stricken he was employed in the navy yard.  In addition to his 
widow he is survived by his widowed father, L.L. Smithson, South Norfolk; and a 
sister, Mrs. Emma Bunch, Kinston, N.C.
The body will arrive here the latter part of the week for funeral and burial.
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The funerals of Miles G. Smithson and his son, Hollice Orrmond Smithson, will 
take place at the residence of the grandparents of the child's mother, Mr. and 
Mrs. Frank A. Pierce, 611 Liberty street, this afternoon at 3 o'clock.  The 
bodies will be interred in the same grave in Magnolia Cemetery.

Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark January 18, 1913

                                   Double Funeral 

The funerals of Miles G. Smithson and son, H. Orrman Smithson, husband and son 
of Mrs. Elnora Robert Smithson, took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. 
Frank Pierce, 611 Liberty street, yesterday afternoon and were largely attended.
Rev. W.R. Flannigan, the new pastor of the Berkley Avenue Baptist Church, 
conducted the service and burial was in Magnolia Cemetery.  The body of the 
little son was tucked in the arms of his dead father, and they were buried 
together in one casket. 
The pallbearers were Henry White, W.H. Gregory, G.A. Harding, J.E. Ricketts, L. 
Nelson, Geo. R. Brickey, J.A. King and L.W. Morgan.

Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark January 19, 1913

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Magnolia

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