Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Spivey, Napoleon B., 1913 

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NAPOLEON B. SPIVEY

DEATH OF NAPOLEON B. SPIVEY

   The body of Napoleon B. Spivey, who was killed at Lambert's Point 
Monday, was brought to Franklin for burial Wednesday.  The young man, 
who was just 21 years old, was a structural steel worker, and while at 
work on a steel pier at Lambert's Point fell nearly 100 feet, falling 
on a shipment of steel, lying on a barge moored at the pier, and died 
at the Norfolk Protestant Hospital a short while afterwards.  He was 
the son of the late Jackson Spivey, a resident of Franklin.  Soon after 
the death of his father his family moved to Portsmouth, where his mother 
died and was buried here last year.  He is survived by two brothers and 
a sister, living in Portsmouth; John H. and Kelley C. Spivey and Miss Mary 
E. Spivey.  The body was brought to Franklin on the 10:36 a.m. Seaboard 
and the interment followed in Poplar Spring Cemetery, services being 
conducted at the grave by Rev. C.E. Blankenship of the Franklin M.E. church. 
The pallbearers were Edmund Holland, Marshall Howell, R.A. Johnson, Jack 
Fleetwood, Edgar and Willie Weede, Will Pace and George Brownley.  The 
brother of the deceased, John H. Spivey, has been a valued employee of the 
Seaboard Air Line for several years, and the railway company furnished a 
private car from Portsmouth to Franklin for the use of the family and their 
friends.  The floral tributes were unusually numerous and beautiful. 


Napoleon B. SPIVEY, structural steel worker, 
d. 17 Nov 1913, Norfolk, age 21, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (unmarked*), Franklin, 19 Nov 1913, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 21 Nov 1913 

*Unmarked; added to list of unknown interments, with his mother. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplarun.txt 


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