Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Joyner, Eileen Pond, 1933 

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EILEEN POND JOYNER

MRS. JOYNER VICTOR OF TRAGEDY NEAR THE N.C. LINE EARLY WEDNESDAY

   An alleged murder of unusual brutality is said to have occurred on the Berry 
Battle farm just across the State line in North Carolina early Wednesday morning 
when Mrs. James Nurney Joyner, 20 years of age, was killed with a shotgun, the 
load, evidently fired at close range, tearing off the entire loser part of her 
face.

   According to reports coming to Franklin, there had been trouble between Mrs. 
Joyner and her husband, who were married in January of this year, and on the 
previous afternoon he is said to have threatened her to the extent that she came 
to Franklin with her brother-in-law, Burgess Joyner,  who happened to be at the 
home. Later Joyner came to Franklin looking for his wife but failing to find her 
returned home and Mrs. Joyner went back to her home about midnight, accompanied 
by State traffic Officer Spates and one of the Franklin night policeman.

   Sometime after 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. Joyner is said to have gone to a Negro 
house near-by asking the Negroes to come and shroud his wife, who, as he said, 
according to the Negroes’ account, "had killed herself." They naturally refused 
to do so, and Wednesday morning about 8 o’clock Joyner told the driver of a 
passing school bus, going toward Como, that his wife had killed herself. The 
driver reported the fact to Wallace Sumner, constable at Como, who advised 
Sheriff Charles W. Parker of Hertford County and Joyner was taken into custody 
by Sheriff Parker later in the morning, now being lodged in Winton jail. Joyner 
has been married before, and liquor is said to have figured in the tragedy.

   Mrs. Joyner was before her marriage Miss Eileen Pond, the daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. George D. Pond of the Franklin community, and is survived by her parents; 
by three sisters, Mrs. Edward Vaughan, Misses Mary and Annie Lee Pond, and one 
brother, George D. Pond, Jr. all of Franklin. Funeral services were held at the 
grave on the Ben Cobb farm near Sedley yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock 
conducted by the Rev. Roscoe Jones of High Street M.E. Church here.


[Eileen (POND; Mrs. James N.) JOYNER, formerly of Franklin, 
 d. 12 Apr 1933, Berry BATTLE farm, Hertford Co., NC, age 20, 
 interred on Ben COBB farm, near Sedley, 13 Apr 1933, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 14, 1933] 

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