Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Briggs, Janie Howell, 1954 

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JANIE HOWELL BRIGGS

SEBRELL WOMAN IS KILLED IN AUTO-TRAIN COLLISION

   Mrs. Janie Howell Briggs, 60, for more than 20 years the Sebrell 
correspondent to The Tidewater News, was instantly killed about 10:15 o'clock 
Wednesday morning, December 1, when the car in which she was driving alone was 
struck by a Diesel locomotive at a grade level crossing in Sebrell.

   It is not known exactly how the fatal accident occurred; but the windows of 
the death car were closed at the time of the collision, and it is believed the 
victim did not hear the warning blast from the locomotive.

   The deceased was the widow of Alwin Earl Briggs, who died on March 18, 1953. 
A lifelong resident of Southampton County, she was a daughter of the late 
William A. and Mrs. Annie Williams Howell of Courtland.

   Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Louise Briggs Childress and Mrs. 
Antoinette Briggs Eaton of Norfolk; two sons, William H. and Alwin Earl 
Briggs, Jr., of Newport News; six grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. C.L. 
Bailey of Sedley, Mrs. P.B. Davis of Sebrell, Mrs. R.M. Knight of Wakefield 
and Mrs. Carroll Vaughan of Franklin; and one brother, C.C. Howell of Smithfield.

   Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the grave 
in Riverside Cemetery, Courtland, with Rev. W.A. Brayshaw, rector of St. Luke's 
Episcopal Church, officiating, assisted by Rev. C.A. McCormick, Jr., pastor of 
the Courtland Methodist Church.

   Pallbearers will be C.L. Bailey, Jr., W.E. Brooks, L.A. Clements, Paul B. 
Davis, Jr., S.C. English, E.H. Howell, E.L. Marks, 3rd, and W.N. Whitehead.


Janie (HOWELL; Mrs. Alwyn E. [Sr.]) BRIGGS, "Tidewater News" correspondent, 
Southampton Co. native, struck by train 1 Dec 1954, Sebrell, age 60, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 20*), Courtland, 
   2 Dec 1954, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 2, 1954, p. 1 

*Her parents are buried in the Episcopal Section, Plot 17. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 20, 1953, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b620a1ob.txt 


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