Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rollings, Thornton B., 1939 

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THORNTON BUTLER ROLLINGS

   Services for Thornton Butler Rollings were conducted at 3:30 o’clock Thursday 
afternoon from the Friends Church at Sedley by his pastor, the Rev. James Rauch 
Stein, assisted by Elwood W. Jones of the Franklin Congregational Christian 
Church. Members of the Courtland High School Senior Class were honorary 
pallbearers and carried floral tributes. Active pallbearers were: Emmett Reese, 
III, Gardner Thomas Hundley, Jr., C.B. Owen, Jr., G.S. Cornwell, Jr., Hugh High, 
Prince Woodard, Turnbull Gillette and LaVerne Wellons, burial being in Rosemont 
Cemetery, Sedley.

   Besides his parents, Amos Thornton Rollings and Mrs. Nannie Butler Rollings, 
he is survived by two aunts, Mrs. J.C. Williams of Sedley and Miss Viola Butler 
of Richmond; three uncles, E.M. Rollings of Sedley, J. Edward Butler of Franklin 
and J.B. Rollings of Portsmouth, in addition to a number of cousins.

   Thornton was a popular member of his class at school and of the Sedley 
Friends Church and his untimely death is a source of deep regret to his many 
friends in Sedley and the community and throughout the county. An unusually 
large crowd attended the rites yesterday afternoon.

   Expressions of sympathy for both the bereaved families of the accident 
victims have been widespread throughout the county this week. The accident with 
its double toil of death was one of the most tragic over to visit the people of 
this county.

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TWO SEDLEY PEOPLE DIE FOLLOWING CAR-TRUCK COLLISION ON SUNDAY - 
   MRS. ANNIE D. JOHNSON AND THORNTON ROLLINGS SUSTAIN FATAL INJURIES

   Mrs. Annie Bettie Davis Johnson, 51, of Sedley died Sunday afternoon and 
Thornton Butler Rollings of Sedley, 18 year old Courtland High School student, 
died Tuesday afternoon from injuries inflicted when the automobile in which they 
were riding with Wiley L. Johnson, husband of Mrs. Johnson, was in collision 
with truck at Stony Creek Sunday afternoon. Mr. Johnson, who was driving the car, 
received severe head and chest injuries and was said to be in a critical 
condition early in the week, although reported as being slightly improved today.

   All three were rushed after the accident to Petersburg Hospital by residents 
of Stony Creek, Mrs. Johnson dying en route. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, accompanied 
by young Rollings, had driven their son, Willard L. Johnson, a V.P.I. student, 
to Farmville, where he took the train for Blacksburg to resume his studies after 
a visit with his parents at Sedley.

   As they returned, Mr. Johnson and Rollings were occupying the front seat and 
Mrs. Johnson the rear seat of the car, a 1939 Chevrolet sedan. The collision 
occurred as the automobile was crossing the intersection of Route 301, the 
Emporia-Petersburg highway, just at the outskirts of Stony Creek. The truck, 
laden with sweet potatoes and headed north, was badly damaged, although the 
driver was unhurt. The name of the truck driver was not learned. The Johnson car 
was practically demolished.

   Rollings, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Rollings of Sedley, died at the 
hospital, the body being taken to the W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home here 
for burial preparations. The body of Mrs. Johnson was also sent to the Holland 
Funeral Home, both funerals taking place in Sedley.


[Thornton Butler ROLLINGS, Courtland H.S. student, d. 7 Feb 1939, age 18, 
 son of Amos T. & Nannie R. (BUTLER) ROLLINGS of Sedley, 
 interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 9 Feb 1939, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 10, 1939] 

[*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Rosemont (S-59):
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt] 

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