Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parker, James W., 1944 

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JAMES W. PARKER

HURT DUE TO FALL FATAL TO TINSMITH

   James W. Parker, 68, employed as a tinsmith by F.M. Wall, died in Raiford 
Hospital at 5:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon of a head injury sustained when he 
fell off the Southern Railway trestle at the Blackwater River here earlier in 
the afternoon.  It is believed that he became dizzy as the result of a seizure 
and fell, striking his head on a rock used as ballast for the abutment of the 
bridge.

   Mr. Parker was the son of the late Louis J. and Mrs. Minnie Parker of 
Hertford County, N.C. and had been living in Franklin for several months.  He 
is survived to mourn their loss by his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Parker of Roanoke 
Rapids, N.C., two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Hart and Mrs. Louise Hollowell of 
Roanoke Rapids; four sons, James E. and John B. Parker of Roanoke Rapids, and 
Cecil and Raymond Parker, both of whom are serving in the United States army 
overseas.

   Funeral services were conducted at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery at 4 
o’clock Monday afternoon by Rev. R.D. Stephenson, pastor of the Franklin 
Baptist Church.  The pallbearers were W.F. Watson, William Duck, Otis Smith, 
Dave Newsom, P.B. Joyner, and W.M. Guyton.


James W. PARKER, of Roanoke Rapids, NC, employed as a tinsmith by F.M. Wall, 
Hertford Co., NC native?, d. 23 Jul 1944, Franklin, age 68, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (unmarked*), Franklin, 
   24 Jul 1944, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 28, 1944, p. 2 

*Added to the list of Unmarked/Unknown interments in Poplar Spring 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplarun.txt 


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