Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beaton, Robert L., 1951 

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ROBERT LAFAYETTE BEATON

ROBERT L. BEATON

   Robert L. Beaton of Norfolk, who was drowned in Hampton Roads last week and 
whose body was recovered on Monday, were conducted at the grave in Poplar 
Spring Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon. 

   The deceased lost his life last Thursday when he went overboard from the 
outboard motorboat he was testing.  Dr. Paul J. Parker, Elizabeth City County 
coroner, ruled that death was due to accidental drowning.  The empty motorboat 
was found some days before Mr. Beaton's body was recovered near Fort Monroe. 

   Before going to Norfolk 10 years ago to make his home, Mr. Beaton had 
resided in Victoria.  He was the son of Mrs. Mary Hatfield Beaton of Sedley 
and the late E. Hunter Beaton, and the husband of Mrs. Mabel Wrigglesworth 
Beaton of Victoria. 

   Other survivors are a daughter, Miss Barbara Allen Beaton of Victoria; a 
brother Howard Hunter Beaton of Norfolk; and five sisters, Mrs. Rollie* H. 
Powell of Washington, D.C., Mrs. George H. Raiford of Victoria, Mrs. P.O. 
Duck, Jr., of Sedley, Mrs. George E. Lindsey of Falls Church, and Mrs. R.J. 
Bartholomew of Portsmouth. 

    Pallbearers at the funeral of Mr. Beaton on Tuesday were Rabey Beale, A.E. 
Drewry, Edgar Drewry, Crawley Edwards, O.H. Newsome, and Berry Wrigglesworth. 

*should read Raleigh 

Robert Lafayette BEATON, of Norfolk, formerly of Victoria, 
Southampton Co. native, drowned 9 Aug 1951, Hampton Roads, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 151**), Franklin, 
   14 Aug 1951, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 17, 1951 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 21, 1941, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b350e2ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 25, 1968, p. 12), 
   with her mother's marriage records appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b350m7ob.txt 


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