Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Turner, Matthew E., 1940 

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MATTHEW E. TURNER 

75-YEAR OLD SEDLEY FARMER IS KILLED BY CAR SUNDAY MORNING 

MATTHEW TURNER, 75, STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE OF CASSIE VICK, COLORED 

VICK AWAITS HEARING 

   Struck by an automobile as he was walking along a road near his home in 
the Sedley community Sunday morning between 11 and 12 o'clock, Matthew Turner 
75-year old farmer, died at Raiford Hospital here shortly afterward.  Mr. 
Turner was brought to the hospital by Aetius Boothe of Sedley and admitted at 
about 12:30.  He died something like 15 minutes later of skull fracture and 
internal injuries, also sustaining a broken ankle and multiple cuts and 
bruises.

   Cassie Vick, Negro living near Holt's Store in the Corinth community, was 
the driver of the car that fatally injured Mr. Turner.  When the accident 
occurred Vick was proceeding west on the Sedley-Vicksville road and Mr. Turner 
was walking in the opposite direction on his right side of the road and on the 
other side from the car, according to two Negroes who were with Vick when it 
happened.  Vick's car crossed the road and knocked Mr. Turner down, carrying 
him a distance of about four feet.

   Jerry Williams, one of the colored men with Vick, left the scene of the 
accident, as did Vick.  Yank Scott, the third Negro in the party, stayed 
around and secured help.  Scott was there when Sheriff T.B. Bell and other 
officers arrived on the scene about 1 o'clock.  The officers found Vick at his 
home Sunday night and jailed him pending a hearing Saturday before Trial 
Justice Chas. W. Davis in Courtland.

   Vick told conflicting stories in explanation of the accident.  He said that 
his radius rod had dropped off, making it impossible to steer the car.  He 
also said that Mr. Turner was on the same side of the road as the automobile. 
He said that he swerved over to the left to avoid hitting him and as he did 
Mr. Turner crossed to that side and was struck.

   Officers discovered that someone had been tampering with the radius rod of 
the car, and Vick's companions told Sheriff Bell that they had seen Vick take 
off his coat and approach his car with a wrench after the accident.  Mr. 
Turner was walking on the other side of the road from the car, and was on that 
side when hit, they said.

   Vick explained his leaving the car by saying he had started walking to find 
help.  It was around 9 o'clock when the officers picked him up.

   Mr. Turner is survived by a brother, Frank Turner, of Portsmouth, and a 
sister, Miss Rosena Turner, of Sedley.  Services were conducted Tuesday 
afternoon at 2 o'clock at Black Creek Baptist Church by the pastor, the Rev. 
W.B. Watson, burial following in the church cemetery.  Members of the men's 
Bible class of the church, of which the deceased was a member, were active 
pallbearers, and the remaining ones were honorary bearers.


Matthew E. TURNER, retired farmer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 7 Jan 1940, Franklin, age 74, 
interred in Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery*, 9 Jan 1940, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 12, 1940, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Black Creek list (BC-28): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt 

Additional information: 

Matthew's Va. Death Certificate, #2581, for which "Miss Rosena P. Turner" 
   (his sister) was the informant, gives the following: 
   Matthew E. Turner, of Sedley RFD, single, b. 29 May 1865, Virginia; 
   d. 7 Jan 1940, Raiford Hospital, Franklin, 
      of Injury of Head, Fractured rt. Leg, Internal injuries, &c {& age}, 
      from an accident on the Highway- struck by automonbile, 
      age 75 yrs, 7 mos. & 10 days; 
   father: Everette Turner, b. Virginia; 
   maiden name of mother: Rose  Polly [sic], b. Virginia;  
   buried Black Creek, Va.; W.J.M. Holland & Son was the undertaker. 

His mother's Va. Death Certificate, #14020, for which "M.E. Turner" (Matthew) 
   was the informant, gives the following: 
   Mrs. Polly Turner, single [sic], b. 14 May 1836, Ilse of Wight Co, Va [sic]; 
   d. 2 Jun 1921, Jerusalem Dist., Southampton Co., 
      of Paralysis (3 mos. duration) {& age}, age 85 yrs & 18 days; 
   father: Everette Turner, b. Ilse of Wight Co, Va [sic]; 
   mother: Mary Rose, b. Va; 
   place of burial left blank; W.J.M. Holland was the undertaker. 


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