Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cabell, Benjamin W.S. Jr., 1942 

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BENJAMIN WILLIAM SHERMAN CABELL, JR. 

FALL PROVES FATAL TO 5 YEAR OLD NEWSOMS BOY; DIES WEDNESDAY 

Benjamin W.S. Cabell, Jr., Sustains Fatal Injuries At Home Monday 

   Little five-year old Benjamin W.S. Cabell, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. B.W.S. 
Cabell of Newsoms, was fatally injured Monday afternoon when he fell from a 
chair on which he was standing in an effort to reach some cakes on a top 
pantry shelf in the Cabell home.

   After he fell the child got up and went out into garden where his parents 
were working and stayed with them for two or three hours.  That night he 
complained of his back and a physician was called.  The following day his 
condition did not improve and he was carried to Raiford Hospital here for 
X-ray examination.  No fracture was revealed but the child succumbed to 
internal injuries Wednesday afternoon at about 1:30 o’clock.

   Besides his parents the child is survived by a brother, Stanley P. Cabell, 
and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Cabell, of Franklin.

   Funeral services were held this afternoon at 1 o’clock at the Methodist 
Church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. F.L. Baker.  Interment was made in 
Newsoms Cemetery, the pallbearers being Arnold Baker, Beale Carter, Jr., Bill 
King, and George Thomas Drake.

   The fatal accident this week was the second such tragedy to strike the 
Cabell home in less than a year.  In June, 1941, Betty Thomas Cabell, 18 
months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B.W.S. Cabell, was killed by a Seaboard 
Air Line passenger train, having wandered from her home nearby on the tracks 
directly in the path of the train.


"Billie" B.W.S. CABELL, Jr., son of Benjamin W.S. & Ellen D. (HOPKINS) CABELL, 
b. 9 Dec 1936, Southampton Co., d. 13 May 1942, Franklin, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 15 May 1942, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 15, 1942, p. 1 

*His 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. 12229 (Franklin #42). 

His 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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