Southampton-Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Butler, Ralph, 1946 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ RALPH BUTLER RALPH BUTLER DIES OF INJURIES FROM R.R. CROSSING CRASH Ralph Butler of the Holland community died at Raiford Memorial Hospital Wednesday morning from injuries received Sunday afternoon when the automobile in which he was riding crashed into a Seaboard passenger train at the highway crossing in Carrsville. He was 40 years of age, the son of Mrs. Hattie L. Butler and the late Solomon Butler of Isle of Wight County. He is survived by his mother and a brother, Robert D. Butler, of Holland. Services will be conducted from the Holland Funeral Home this (Friday) afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. N.C. Clifton of Beaver Dam and Rev. R.D. Stephenson of this town. Ralph BUTLER, of Holland, Isle of Wight Co. native, injured 18 May 1946, Carrsville, d. 22 May 1946, Franklin, age 40, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 122*), Franklin, 24 May 1946, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 24, 1946, p. 1 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b346r4ob.txt