Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Huber, Robert E., 1938 

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DENDRON YOUTH 
        BURNED TO DEATH 

  Robert Edward Huber of Dendron, age six  was fatally burned at his home 
in the afternoon of February 28th. 

  Mrs. Edwin F. Huber, the child's [mother,] who was taking a nap, left 
[him playing] in the yard, when she [awoke?] several hours later to find 
[smoke?] rising in the vicinity of the [pig]pen. 

  When she reached the scene she found the child laying face down with a 
box of matches beside him and his clothes burned off.  He had been dead 
about an hour. 


Robert Edward HUBER, son of Edwin F. & Essie (FAISON) HUBER, 
Surry Co. native, fatally burned 28 Feb 1938, at home, Dendron, age 6, 
interred in Union Christian Church Cemetery*, Surry Co., 1 Mar 1938, 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 18, No. 49, Mar. 3, 1938, p. 3, col. 2 

*His parents are buried there also. 
   His Find a Grave Memorial, #76086815, includes a photo of his marker, 
   which bears the epitaph "Fond Memories of Thee." 

Much of this article was extremely faint in the copy scanned and posted online 
   at the Library of Virginia's Virginia Chronicle database: 
   http://virginiachronicle.com/ 
   I have tried to fill in the blanks, as best I could. (mh) 

The date of death was not legible; gleaned from his D.Cert., #5044. 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com) [brackets mine] 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/h160r1ob.txt