Southampton-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cobb, Roger W., 1943 

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ROGER WILSON COBB

YOUNG FRANKLIN MAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK WHILE SWIMMING SUN.

Roger W. Cobb, 20 Years Old, Is Seized in James River Sunday Afternoon

   Roger Wilson Cobb, 20-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Emmett Cobb of 
Franklin, died from a heart attack while in swimming at Camp Waters, Boy Scout 
Camp on the James River in Surry County, Sunday afternoon at about 1 o’clock. 
In the water with him at the time were L.E. Britt and B.T. Watkins, Jr., who 
were visiting for the day at Camp Waters, Roger having gone to visit his 
brother, Allen Cobb.

   Roger got into difficulties while swimming and called for help.  Young 
Britt first tried to tow him in, but the other boy became panicky and he had 
to give up the attempt.  Watkins also tried to assist him but he went under.

   Others by that time had come to the scene and the body was recovered after 
a few minutes search with grappling hooks and placed on a float near where he 
went down.  Artificial respiration was tried and an inhalator was brought from 
Hopewell in response to a S.O.S. from the camp.  After more than two hours 
work, efforts at resuscitation were abandoned, rigor mortis having set in.

   Dr. B.H. Knight, Surry County coroner, who examined the body, pronounced a 
verdict of death from heart attack, the negligible quantity of water in the 
boy’s lungs confirming this conclusion.

   Roger is immediately survived only by his parents and his brother.  He was 
a graduate of Franklin High School and had attended Virginia Tech.  He was 
employed by the Chesapeake-Camp Corporation here, and was a member of the 
Franklin Baptist Church.

   Services were conducted from the residence on South Street Tuesday morning 
at 11 o’clock by his pastor, the Rev. R.D. Stephenson.  A quartette composed 
of Mrs. F.E. Howell, Mrs. J.C. Taylor, E.K. Brinkley, and Joel Cooke Holland 
sang "Safe in the Arms of Jesus."  Interment was made in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery with the following pallbearers: Gilmore Bradshaw, L.E. Britt, B.T. 
Watkins, Jr., A.H. Gee, Arthur Vaughan, W.W. Dillon, Jr., C.C. Vaughan, 3rd, 
and Lawless Cobb.


Roger Wilson COBB, Chesapeake-Camp Corp. employee, 
d. 1 Aug 1943, Camp Waters B.S. Camp, Surry Co., age 20, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 180*), Franklin, 
   3 Aug 1943, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 6, 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," June 23, 1951) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c100w1ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 21, 1969, Section II, p. 10) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c100a5ob.txt 


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