Surry-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Presson, Joel J., 1925 

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JOEL J. PRESSON

WAKEFIELD MAN DROWNS IN LAKE

Joel Presson*, of Surry Meets Death in Waters of Shields.

WAS V.P.I. STUDENT

Physician Work Futilely Over Body of Young Man

  Joel Presson, 22, of Wakefield in Surry County, was drowned yesterday 
morning about 8:30 o’clock in Shields' Lake, following, it is believed, a 
stroke of apoplexy, heart disease, or cramps.  Five physicians worked over 
the young man's body, which was recovered in about thirty minutes by 
Shippard Parsons, 3307 Kensington, who, with other member of the Dolphin 
club, an aquatics organization, were in the lake at the time of the accident.

  Dr. F.K. Lord, who watched Presson enter the lake, said that he let himself 
into the water feet first until it reached his chest, and then suddenly fell 
over and disappeared beneath the surface.

  Presson had started to return to his home in Wakefield, following a 
visit to the home of R.D. Linthicum, 2901 Edgewood Avenue, and motoring by the 
lake, he and Miss Pauline Hines, of Washington, and H.K. Bache, 2910 Hawthorne 
Avenue, decided to take a dip before starting the trip.  Presson had driven up 
to Richmond to bring Mrs. Linthicum home, following her visit in Wakefield.

  He was a second-year man at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and was 
described to several who knew him as of unusually strong mentality.

  Coroner James M. Whitefield rendered a verdict of accidental drowning in the 
case, and the body was burned over to Bennett’s undertaking establishment.

  Funeral services will be conducted in Wakefield, young Presson's father 
having arrived in Richmond yesterday afternoon to return with the body today.

*"Presser" in several instances corrected to Presson. 

Joel J. PRESSON, of Surry Co., V.P.I. sophomore, 
b. Dec 1903*, Surry Co., drowned 9 Jul 1925, Shields Lake, Richmond, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery*, Surry Co., 
donated obit [likely "Richmond Times-Dispatch"] 

*Rocky Hock list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/cemeteries/rockyhk.txt 

His gravestone shows b. 29 Dec 1903.  A photo of it is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #137184544. 

D.Cert. 15992 (Richmond #1500), gives b. 28 Dec 1903; the informant was 
   his host, R.D. Linthicum. 

His parents, Joel Henley & Irene Lillian (HARRIS FISHER) PRESSON, & maternal 
   grandparents are buried in the same plot. 

His father's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," May 15, 1945, p. 17) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p625h2ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Feb. 1, 1949) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p625i1ob.txt 


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