Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beaton, Daniel L. family, 1942 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MR. AND MRS. DANIEL BEATON, JACQUELINE BEATON AND MRS. THOMAS G. DUNLOW* ROAD VICTIMS BURIED TODAY Services for Mr. and Mrs. Beaton, Two Others To Be at Franklin Suffolk, Feb. 22 - Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lee Beaton, their 10-year-old daughter, Jacqueline Beaton, and their sister-in-law, Mrs. Annie Dunlow [sic*] - all four of whom were killed late Saturday night on the Suffolk-Portsmouth Highway, when their car, headed towards Suffolk, collided with a van driven by Clyde Hooper, headed towards Portsmouth, will be held Monday afternoon at the Franklin Baptist Church. The services will be conducted by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson, pastor of the Franklin church, and the Rev. John Batkin, pastor of Colosse Baptist Church. Burial will be in Poplar Springs [sic] Cemetery, Franklin. The accident victims made their homes in that town. Gloria Lee Beaton, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beaton, was seriously injured in the accident and is now under treatment in Lakeview Hospital here. Hooper, driver of the van, is also in the hospital, suffering from minor injuries. The accident occurred about two miles west of Magnolia. The Beaton car was cut almost in half. Two of the victims were thrown into the canal which borders the four-lane highway. ****************************************************************************** Funeral Is Held For Car Victims In Franklin Hundreds of people filled the Franklin Baptist Church Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock when the funeral services were conducted for the four victims of the Suffolk-Portsmouth highway accident Saturday night. They were Daniel Lee Beaton, Mrs. Beaton, Jacqueline Beaton and Mrs. Annie Dunlow. The Rev. R.D. Stephenson pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. John Batkin, pastor of Colosse Baptist Church, officiated. The four caskets were covered with palls of pink and white carnations and fern, and eight pallbearers served for all four. The pallbearers were R.C. Brach [sic; Branch], Sr. W.D. Giles. J.L. Eley, Jr., Geo. Wright, P. S. Lowe, W. J. Bradshaw, Clyde and Leonidas Cutchin. The deaths resulted in a collision between the Beaton car and a van. The church choir, with Hal Lyon as organist, sang "Sometime We'll Understand", and "Rock of Ages". As the four caskets were brought into the church Mr. Lyon played "Adagio" from Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and "Ase's Death" (Grieg). As the procession left the church, he played "Going Home". Burial was in Poplar Springs [sic] Cemetery. ****************************************************************************** HOLD RITES FOR WRECK VICTIMS - Four Victims of Automobile Accident Are Buried Here Monday INFANT SURVIVES CRASH. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lee Beaton, their daughter Jacqueline Beaton, and Mrs. Beaton’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Thomas W. Dunlow [sic*], of Franklin were killed last Saturday night on the Suffolk-Portsmouth highway when their car was in collision with a van driven by Clyde Hooper. The car was headed towards Suffolk and the van was traveling towards Portsmouth when the accident occurred near Magnolia in Nansemond County. Mr. Beaton was 36, Mrs. Beaton was 34, and their daughter Jacqueline, nine. Mrs. Dunlow was 43. Besides his infant daughter, Mr. Beaton is survived by a step-son, Raymond Holland; a sister Mrs. J.R. Babb of Sebrell, and four brothers, Edward and Claude Beaton of Norfolk, John Beaton of Franklin and Nelson Beaton. Surviving Mrs. Beaton besides her daughter are a son by a former marriage, Raymond Holland; three sisters, Mrs. Belle Bradshaw of Suffolk; Mrs. Geo. Phillip Raiford of Ivor and Mrs. Patsy Briggs of Ocean View; three brothers, John Dunlow of Holland, Robert Dunlow of Baltimore and Thomas Dunlow of Franklin. Mrs. Dunlow is survived by her husband, Thomas Dunlow of Franklin; two sons, Thomas Jr. and Jimmy Dunlow; her mother, Mrs. Fannie Carr Williford; four sisters, Mrs. Robert Bradshaw of Franklin, Mrs. John Dunlow and Mrs. J.T. Darden of Holland and Mrs. Mary W. Lanier of Suffolk. Funeral services for the four victims were held in the Franklin Baptist Church Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock, hundreds attending the rites from throughout this section. The four caskets were covered with palls of pink and white carnations and fern. The services were conducted by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson, pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. John P. Batkins of Beaver Dam Baptist Church. The eight pallbearers who served for all four caskets were R.C. Branch, W.D. Giles, J.L. Eley, Jr., George Wright, P.S. Lowe, W.J. Bradshaw and Clyde and Leonidas Cutchin. The choir of the church sang "Sometimes We’ll Understand" and "Rock of Ages." Hal J. Lyon, church organist, played the Adagio movement from Beethoven’s "Moonlight Sonata," and "Ase’s Death" from the Grieg "Peer Gynt" suite as the caskets were brought into the church. As the funeral procession left the church he played "Going Home," or the Largo movement from Dvorak’s "New World" symphony. The burial took place in Poplar Spring Cemetery. Daniel Lee BEATON, of Franklin, age 36, Hattie (DUNDALOW HOLLAND; Mrs. Daniel L.) BEATON, age 34, Jacqueline BEATON, daughter of Daniel L. & Hattie (DUNDALOW) BEATON, age 9, Annie L. (WILLIFORD; Mrs. Thomas George [Sr.]) DUNLOW/DUNDALOW, age 43, killed in automobile collision, 21 Feb 1942, near Magnolia, Nansemond Co., interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 134*), Franklin, 23 Feb 1942, donated obit, publication unknown, posted with Find a Grave Mem. #110648978; "Smithfield Times," Vol. 23, No. 48, Feb. 26, 1942, p. 1, col. 4; "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 27, 1942, p. 1 *Additional information: Mrs. DUNDALOW is unmarked, but presumably buried with son Thomas George DUNDALOW Jr. (1926-1991), in Annex 2, Plot 7B. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt The surname varies widely - DUNDALOW, DUNDELOW, DUNDLOW, DUNLOW, &c. Thomas [Sr.] WW-I draft card gives Dundalow, b. 2 Jan 1895, So.Co.; WW-II draft card gives Dundlow, b. 1 Jan 1896, So.Co. He was living in Baltimore, MD, when he d. in Aug 1970. ("Baltimore Sun") Thomas & Hattie's brother John H. DUNDLOW m. Annie's sister Essie. They are buried in Annex 2, Plot 173A. Essie's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 3, 1987, p. 8A) is postd at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d534e1ob.txt Their sister Patti Lee {"Patsy" above} and their father, John D. DUNDALOW, are buried in Sect. 2, Plot 86B. Their mother, Lillie (STATES/STAKES) DUNDALOW, & step-mother are buried in Sect. 2, Plot 27A: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt Their father's obit ("Tidewater News," June 5, 1936, p. 5) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d534j1ob.txt Daniel's parents, William Riddick and Elizabeth (HARCUM) BEATON, and Annie's mother, Fannie R. (CARR; Mrs. Cornelius "Jack") WILLIFORD, are buried in Beaverdam Baptist Church Cemetery, near Carrsville. SCHS Cemetery Project, Beaver Dam list (BD-4 & 79): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt His father's obit ("Tidewater News," May 5, 1933) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b350w1ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b350d2ob.txt