Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ferguson, Harry Morris, 1919 
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HARRY MORRIS FERGUSON

HARRY FERGUSON KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK

   Our community was shocked an deeply grieved on Sunday morning to learn of 
the tragic death of Harry Ferguson, one of the young engineers of the Seaboard 
Air Line, which occurred in a wreck near Petersburg on last Saturday night.  A 
passenger train going from North Carolina to Richmond ran into an open switch, 
the engine and tender were overturned and the engineer and Harry, who was the 
fireman at the time, and a colored train hand, were killed. 

   The body was entered here in Beechwood Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon at 
2:30 o'clock.  Services conducted by his pastor, Rev. H.P. Dalton, of the 
Baptist church. 

   The pallbearers were: active, P.T. Person, Franklin Powell, Felton Draper, 
and Fred Drewry of Boykins, A.E. Burden, J.V. Dickens, R.R. King of Raleigh 
and W.C. Wiggins of Richmond; honorary, Wallace White, Spear Edwards, N.F. 
Gray, J.V. Hines, B.F. Britt, F.A. Hines, R.C. Knight, Herbert Britt, Hugh 
Powell, Geo. Powell, H.V. Thornton, A.L. Knight, T.H. Porter, A.M. Williams, 
J.R. Hines, Dr. J.M. Bland, R.H. Powell, R.H. Andrews, N.S. Beaton, C.T. 
Beaton, R.L. Williams, H.K. DeLoatche, J.H. Drewry, B.R. Bryant, Dr. G.H. 
Musgrave, E.R. Bryant, W.F. McKinstry, S.J. Myrick, G.L. Powell, W.W. Bowers, 
R.T. Stephenson. 

   Among the many beautiful floral designs sent by sympathetic friends was one 
from the family of the engineer killed in the wreck and one from the 
passengers of the ill-fated train. 

   The deceased was 26 years of age, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Ferguson of 
Boykins, and is survived by his parents, three brothers, Guy and Jeter 
Ferguson of Boykins and Elbert Ferguson of Norfolk and two sisters, Misses 
Tena and Virginia Dare Ferguson of Boykins. 

  A promising young life has been cut off and our hearts go out in deepest 
sympathy to the bereaved family.  A peculiarly distressing fact connected with 
his death is that he was betrothed to a young lady in Richmond to whom he was 
soon to be married. 

   We can only sympathize and point them to a loving Heavenly Father who knows 
our sorrows and who alone can bind up the broken hearts. 


Harry Morris FERGUSON, Seaboard Air Line engineer & fireman, 
killed in derailment 27 Sep 1919, near Petersburg, age 26, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 1, Section A, Plots 2/3*), Boykins, 
   30 Sep 1919, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 3, 1919, p. 1 

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


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