Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Norfleet, John S., 1941 

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JOHN SUMNER NORFLEET

JACK NORFLEET KILLED IN AUTO SMASH-UP HERE ON THURSDAY MORNING

HIRAM LANE, JR., DRIVER OF CAR, IS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN ACCIDENT

   Jack Norfleet, 25, was instantly killed Thursday morning about 7 o’clock 
and Hiram Lane, Jr. about 20, was seriously injured, when a convertible coupe 
driven by Lane left the North Carolina highway in the outskirts of Franklin 
and turned over after jumping a ditch on the left side of the road.  Young 
Norfleet was dead when a colored man who lived at the scene of the crash got 
to him.  Both men were thrown out of the car.

   Sheriff T.B. Bell said that apparently no one saw the accident, but a crowd 
quickly gathered around after the crash, several having heard it.  The young 
men were returning from Four Brothers Café, a mile or more south, when the car 
got out of control on a curve a short distance south of the town limits.  The 
top of the car was smashed down from the impact when it turned upside down 
from the impact when it turned upside down.  The car went for more than 80 
yards after it went out of control.

   The car sideswiped an automobile driven by Willie Day, Courtland Negro, and 
occupied by two other Negroes, Johnnie Boy Darden and Hiawatha Darden, both of 
Courtland, who were en route to work on a road in the "Big Woods" near 
Riddicksville.  The death car carrying Norfleet and Lane was headed towards 
Franklin.  Franklin officers Rhea and Burrow were at the scene shortly after 
the crash.

   Lane is in Raiford Hospital with a broken right leg and severe lacerations 
and head injuries.  He was not injured internally, it is thought.  Norfleet 
sustained a broken neck.

   Jack Norfleet was the son of Walter H. Norfleet of Franklin, and besides 
his father is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Louise Scott and Miss Cora 
Norfleet; a brother, Walter H. Norfleet Jr., his maternal grandfather, J.R. 
Howell; two aunts, Mrs. George R. Brown, all of Franklin, and Mrs. W.H. 
Burchett of Suffolk, besides several uncles.

   Services were conducted this afternoon at 3 o’clock from Franklin 
Congregational Christian Church by Dr. Elwood W. Jones, assisted by the Rev. 
Herbert G. Councill of Portsmouth.  Burial took place in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery with the following pallbearers; Roger I. Beale Jr., James Beale, Jack 
Beale, Jordan Rountree, Elmer Bradshaw Jr., Elliott Whitfield and J.H. Boyd, 
Jr.


John Sumner "Jack" NORFLEET, 
killed in wreck, 30 Oct 1941, North Carolina highway, outside Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 124*), Franklin, 
   31 Oct 1941, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 31, 1941, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

Additional information: 
son of Walter Henry (Sr.) and Ethel Murray HOWELL NORFLEET

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," July 1, 1954) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/n614w3ob.txt

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," June 24, 1927) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/n614e1ob.txt


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