Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Walker, Ephraim, 1896 

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Ephraim WALKER 

TOWN OF SUFFOLK 

FOUND IN THE RIVER 

The Long Absence of a Southampton County Man at Last Explained. 

SUSPICION OF FOUL PLAY NOT UPHELD 

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  Suffolk, Va., Aug. 14. - (Special) - The dead body of Ephraim Walker was 
this week found in the Nottoway river at Courtland, Southampton county.  He 
had been missing for some time and no one know his whereabouts.  There was 
a suspicion of foul play and the Mayor had summoned a Coroner's Jury to 
investigate.  No marks to indicate violence were found on his person, and 
the jury brought a verdict that death resulted from accidental drowning. 


Ephraim WALKER, 
drowned - found Aug 1896, Nottoway R., Courtland, 
"The Norfolk Virginian," Aug. 15, 1896, p. 6, col. 3 

Not found in the [recopied] Southampton Co. D.Recs. 


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