Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Screws, Edgar B., 1928 

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EDGAR BENJAMIN* SCREWS

FRANKLIN BOY DROWNS IN BALTIMORE WHILE TAKING SWIM IN BAY

   Edgar Benjamin Screws, a Franklin boy who has been a member of the United 
States Coast Guard for several months, was accidentally drowned in Curtis Bay 
just south of Baltimore Saturday, May 26, about 11 o’clock a.m. while in 
swimming.  Mr. Screws was first attached to the destroyer McDougal, but about 
four months ago was transferred to the Destroyer Porter, his ship being in 
Baltimore harbor at the time of his death.  The body was brought home for 
burial and funeral services were conducted from his late home Monday afternoon 
at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. J.W. Fox of the Christian Church.  Mrs. H.G. Cobb and 
Miss Lizzie Mae Cutchin sang special numbers at the funeral and the graveside, 
interment being made in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The body bearers were Roger 
and Lloyd Edwards, Harry Councill, Willie Whitley, Linwood Cooper, and D.R. 
Butler, and the honorary pallbearers were Adolph Cutchin, Ezra Gray, Franklin 
Whitfield, Emmett Griffin, Wesley and Aubrey Gray.

   The young man, who was only 20 years of age, was the son of the late 
Bennett* Screws and Mrs. Mattie Branch Screws of this town and is survived by 
his mother and one brother, Riddick Screws of Franklin.  In a letter of 
sympathy from Lieut. Commander Stephen S. Yeandle of the Porter to Mrs. 
Screws, the Commander said:

   "Your son was an agreeable shipmate, attentive to duties and liked by all 
his associates on board ship."  Flowers were sent by the officers and crew and 
the ship’s personnel lined up on deck with the flag half-masted during the 
hour of the burial service.


Edgar B.* SCREWS, serving aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Destroyer "Porter," 
Franklin boy, drowned 26 May 1928, Curtis Bay, Baltimore Harbor, MD, age 20, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 31*), Franklin, 
   28 May 1928, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 1, 1928, p. 1 

*Cemetery list gives name as Bennett Edgar. 
    His father William Bennett went by his middle name. 
 Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 


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