Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Briley, Hubert E., 1948 

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HUBERT ERDMAN BRILEY

YOUNG MAN DIES WHEN THROWN BY MOTOR SCOOTER

HUBERT BRILEY, VICTIM OF ACCIDENT ON PRETLOW AVENUE, 
SUFFERS FRACTURED SKULL AND BROKEN NECK.

    Funeral services for Hubert Erdman Briley, 21, who was fatally injured on 
Friday morning, May 28, were conducted from the Holland Funeral Home on Sunday 
afternoon at three o’clock by Rev. J.W. Ward, pastor of the Pentecostal 
Holiness Church, Suffolk.  Interment was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, and 
pallbearers being Marcelle Jordan of Suffolk, Mills and Calvin Tomblin of 
Zuni, and Wallace and Raymond Mason and Oliver Glover of Franklin.

    Young Mr. Briley, an employee of the Taggart Corporation, received the 
injuries which resulted in his death about 9:30 o’clock, when he was thrown 
from the motor scooter he was riding.  The accident occurred on Pretlow 
Avenue about three-tenths of a mile from its confluence with South Street.

   According to Dr. T.A. Morgan, county coroner, Briley, who made his home 
with his sister, Mrs. Carl Mason, at the William Bradshaw dairy farm on the 
South Quay Road, and his friend, William Tyree, of about the same age, were 
proceeding towards Franklin on their motor scooters.  Briley slowed down to 
make some adjustment to his machine, then speeded up to overtake his friend. 
What actually caused the accident may never be known, but according to Tyree 
the Briley scooter bumped into Tyree’s machine, knocking him into the nearby 
ditch.  When Tyree recovered, he found Briley lying unconscious on the 
pavement.

   Workmen from the housing project in Meadowbrook picked Briley up and 
carried him in a truck to Raiford Memorial Hospital, where it was found that 
he was suffering from multiple fractures of the skull, severe concussion of 
the brain, and a broken neck.  He died at 1:30 o’clock Friday afternoon 
without regaining consciousness.  Tyree’s injuries proved superficial.

   Originally from Tarboro, N.C., young Briley was the son of Mr. and Mrs. 
E.M. Briley of Zuni, who survive.  Other survivors are his sisters, Mrs. Carl 
Mason of Franklin and Misses Effie and Eva Dell Briley of Zuni; and five 
brothers, Julian, Earl, Delma, James and William Briley, all of Zuni.


Hubert Erdman BRILEY, Taggart Corp. employee, 
Tarboro, NC native, thrown from scooter, d. 28 May 1948, Franklin, age 21, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 232*), Franklin, 
   30 May 1948, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 4, 1948, p. 1 

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


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