Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cabell, Betty T., 1941 

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BETTY THOMAS CABELL 

CHILD IS KILLED BY SEABOARD TRAIN AT NEWSOMS WEDNESDAY 

   Little Betty Thomas Cabell, 18 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin 
W.S. Cabell of Newsoms, was instantly killed Wednesday morning at about 9:50 
by a northbound Seaboard Air Line passenger train.  The little girl had run 
away from home and her mother had missed her and was seeking her when the 
tragedy occurred.

   The child was reported to have been between the tracks when struck by the 
train at a spot a quarter of a mile south of the station.  Commonwealth’s 
Attorney Junius W. Pulley and Sheriff T.B. Bell, both of Courtland, 
investigated the accident, and it is not thought that any further inquest 
will be made.

   Besides her parents the child is survived by two brothers, B.W.S. Cabell, 
Jr. and Stanley Cabell; two grandparents, H.B. Hopkins and P.A. Cabell of 
Franklin, and a great-grandmother, Mrs. W.B. Hobson of Dunn, N.C.

   The body was taken to the Purviance Funeral Home at Boykins. Services were 
conducted Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from Newsoms Methodist Church by 
the pastor, the Rev. F.L. Baker, assisted by the Rev. C.P. Cleveland of 
Newsoms Baptist Church.  Four school children acted as pallbearers, burial 
taking place in Newsoms Cemetery.


Betty Thomas CABELL, daughter of Benjamin W.S. & Ellen D. (HOPKINS) CABELL, 
b. 3 Nov 1939, Newsoms, struck by train 4 Jun 1941, Newsoms, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 5 Jun 1941, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 6, 1941, p. 1 

*Her parents are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-14): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 15900 (Newsoms #11). 

Her father's obits ("Tidewater News," Jan. 31 & Feb. 4, 1974) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c140b1ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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