Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smithson, Hollice Orrmond January 16, 1913
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Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark January 17, 1913

                    FATHER AND SON TO BE BURIED TOGETHER    

Hollice Orrmond Smithson, the nine months son of the late Miles G. Smithson, 
died at the residence of his great grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pierce, 611 
Liberty street, yesterday afternoon at 1:50 o'clock after an illness of three 
months.
His father died at Colorado Springs, Colo., Saturday afternoon.
On the arrival of the father's body, the funeral of the son and father will take 
place at the same time and their bodies will be interred together.
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SMITHSON - At the family residence, the great grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
Pierce, 611 Liberty street, Thursday afternoon, January 16, 1913, at 1:50 
o'clock, HOLLICE ORRMOND SMITHSON, son of Mrs. Elnora Roberts Smithson and the 
late Miles G. Smithson aged 9 months, 8 days.
Funeral at above residence on arrival of remains of father from Colorado 
Springs, Col.
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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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