Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ford, Moses, 1878 

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Suicide from Mortification. 

A NEGRO RECEIVES A WHIPPING AND THEN COMMITS SUICIDE. 
 [Special telegram to the Dispatch.] 

  FRANKLIN, SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA., December 17.- Moses Ford, a negro 
living in Nansemond county, and employed as section-hand on the railroad, 
committed suicide last night.  He was whipped for stealing ten dollars, 
and after receiving the lashes went to his mother's door and blew his 
brains out with a double-barrelled shot-gun.  He missed himself at the 
first fire, but taking better aim the second time, he succeeded, as 
stated above. 
[...] 


Moses FORD, of Nansemond Co., R.R. section-hand, 
suicide 16 Dec 1878, 
"The (Richmond, VA) Daily Dispatch," Wed., Dec. 18, 1878, p. 3, col. 3 


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