Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Coggsdale, Robert H., 1938 

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ROBERT H. COGGSDALE

CHILD DIES AS RESULT OF SCALDS WEDNESDAY

   Bobbie Coggsdale, five-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Coggsdale, died 
Wednesday night at about 9:30 in Raiford Hospital here, following scalds 
received that afternoon when he fell into a pot of boiling water.

   The accident occurred at Camptown across the river from Franklin in Isle of 
Wight County, where the Coggsdales live, in the yard of a neighbor where the 
child was playing.  He was reported to have stumbled and fallen backward into 
the boiling water.

   Funeral services will be conducted from the home this (Friday) afternoon at 
3 o’clock by Dr. Elwood W. Jones of the Franklin Congregational Christian 
Church, with interment in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Besides his parents the child is survived by a brother, James Ernest 
Coggsdale.


Robert H. "Bobbie" COGGSDALE, 
son of Ernest H. & Sadie M. (MURRAY) COGGSDALE of Camptown, 
scalded, d. 2 Mar 1938, Franklin, age 5, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 68A*), Franklin, 
   4 Mar 1938, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 4, 1938, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Additional information: 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 14, 1960, p. 7) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c234e1ob.txt 


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