Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blythe, Marvin L., 1943 

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MARVIN LEE BLYTHE

ISLE OF WIGHT BOY DIES TUESDAY WHEN BURIED UNDER SAND

   The body of Marvin Lee Blythe, 10 year-old child living in the Camptown 
settlement in Isle of Wight County across the Blackwater River from Franklin, 
was found buried, except for the feet, in a sandpile, Tuesday at about 12:30 
p.m.  He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Blythe.  According to his mother 
he had been picking blackberries and told her he was going to try to sell them.

   He was last seen between 11 and 11:30 o’clock that morning.  Two Negro boys 
discovered the body shortly after noon reported it to Mrs. Blythe.  Dr. J.C. 
Rawls of Franklin was designated by Isle of Wight coroner Dr. Ray Parker of 
Smithfield to act for him, and he declared the death to have resulted from 
suffocation.

    Just how the accident occurred was not ascertained.  The sandpile was on a 
vacant lot near highway 58 between a parking shed and a barn.  The sand had 
been hauled there only a comparatively short while ago.  It was thought that 
the child was tunneling into it and the sand collapsed on him.

   Besides his parents the child is survived by a brother, Adolph Blythe; two 
sisters, Jacqueline and Barbara Jean Blythe; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. 
L.B. Blythe of Franklin and Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Burgess of Murfreesboro.

   Services were conducted from the Holland Funeral Home here Wednesday 
afternoon at 5 o’clock by Dr. Elwood W. Jones, pastor of the deceased assisted 
by the Rev. Harry W. Backhus, III.  Pallbearers were Purcell Blythe, Norman 
Edwards, Herbert and Kigh Burgess.  Interment was made in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery.


Marvin Lee BLYTHE, 
son of William A. & Jessie R. (BURGESS) BLYTHE, of Camptown, 
smothered in sandpile, 29 Jun 1943, Isle of Wight Co., near Franklin, age 10, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 56*), Franklin, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 2, 1943, p. 1 

*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," Jan. 15, 1981) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b430w3ob.txt 


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