Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Claude H., 1930 

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CLAUDE HENRY GRAY

SOUTHAMPTON BOY DIES IN SUFFOLK WHEN HIT BY TRAIN TUESDAY NIGHT

Claude Gray of Branchville Hit By Seaboard Passenger Train 
Actual Cause of Death Not Yet Determined

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD HERE THIS AFTERNOON

   Funeral services for Claude Gray, 19 year-old youth and the son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Reuben L. Gray of Branchville, who was killed in Suffolk Tuesday night, 
possibly by a Seaboard passenger train, will be held from the Franklin Baptist 
Church this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the pastor, Rev. R.D. Stephenson, 
conducting the service.  Interment will be made in the family plot at 
Riverside Cemetery, Courtland.

   Considerable mystery attaches to the death of young Gray, who was struck by 
the southbound Seaboard train just outside of the Suffolk station Monday night. 
Engineer Griffin of the train testified that he saw the body of the young man 
lying across the track under the Kingsboro Bridge just as the train had slowed 
down for the station, but was unable to bring the locomotive to a stop before 
it had run over the body.  It was rumored that he might have been the victim 
of foul play and his body placed on the track, or that he might have fallen 
from the bridge and been stunned by the fall.  It is said that Dr. O.R. Yates, 
coroner in Suffolk, found no basis to substantiate either theory, although 
investigations into the cause of his death are still under way.  The young man 
was living when picked up by members of the train crew but died while being 
taken into the station.

   The body was brought here to the home of his uncle, J.F. Gray.  The 
deceased was a native of this county, and besides his parents, is survived by 
three brother, Merton, Charles and Sam Gray, and three sisters, Mrs. Curtis 
Hand of Newport News and Misses Blanche and Thelma Gray of Branchville.  He 
made his home in Suffolk with his uncle, M.A. Gray


Claude Henry GRAY, of Suffolk, 
Southampton Co. native, struck by train, 1 Apr 1930, Suffolk, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 22*), Courtland, 
   4 Apr 1930, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 4, 1930, p. 1 

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

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 11, 1958, Sect. I, p. 8) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g600r2ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," May 9, 1952, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g600m7ob.txt 


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