Mercer Co WV Archives - Obituary ---Arthur Edward Webb, 1944 

Contributed July 17, 2008 for use in USGenWeb Archives 
By: Fred Spradlin, fspradlin@earthlink.net

Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Tues., Aug. 8, 1944

                         LOCAL BRAKEMAN
                         DIES OF INJURIES
                             ------
                     A. E. Webb Falls under Car
                        He Was Attempting to Un-
                        couple:  Funeral Arrange-
                        ments Not Complete
                             -------

   A. E. Webb, 33, 1711 Franklin street, this city, a brakeman for the Norfolk
and Western railway, died yesterday morning at Bluefield Sanitarium as the
result of injuries sustained earlier in the morning  when he fell from a car
he was attempting to uncouple on the scale track and was run over by the car.
   The accident occurred between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday morning and Mr.
Webb died at 9 o'clock at the sanitarium.
   He is survived by his wife the former Miss Hazel Spradlin, and the
following children: Elizabeth Ann, Joyce and Martha.  He is also survived by
his mother, Mrs. Lelia Thompson; six brothers, L. K., J. A., R. S., all of
Bluefield; W. W. of Camp Pickett, Va.; James F., U. S. army; and C. C. of
Troy, Ohio; and three sisters, Mrs. C. R. Edmunds and Mrs. Harry Ratliff of
Bluefield, and Mrds. Lous Jackson, of Baltimore, Md.
   Mr. Webb had been employed by the railroad for the past 18 months.   Born
at Lick Banch, W. Va., he was the son of the late R. A. Webb.  He had been in
Bluefield for the past 15 or 16 years.
   The body will be taken to the home on Franklin street this morning at 10
o'clock, where it will remain until the funeral hour.  Arrangements ahd not
been completed last night pending the arrival of relatives.  Services will
probably be held Wednesday afternoon and burial will follow in Monte Vista
Park cemetery.





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