U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
November 4, 1873 - FENTRESS -- Friday morning, October 3d, 1873, at 3:30 o'clock FLORENCE L., youngest daughter of George d. and Josephine Fentress, aged 1 year, 4 months and 13 days. The funeral will take place from the residence of it's parents, No., 117 Fenchurch street.
November 4, 1873 - HOWARD -- At her late residence on County street, at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning, of consumption, Mrs. CLARISSA HOWARD, wife of the late John W. Howard, aged 43 years. The funeral will take place from her late residence on Court Street this Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
November 6, 1873 - Died, September 17th, 1873, MISS SOPHIE A. BYNUM, aged 23 yeas, 9 months. Sweet breezes from heavenly lands at times wait to earth spirits so pure, that conjecture whispers that Paradise was their proper home, Alpine hunters amidst beetling crags and while snow drifts now and then, find a flower of dazzling beauty, living among barren rocks over which storms thunder in fiercest wrath; still protected by some unseen agency they bloom and blossom. Such natures are often sent to linger awhile in the world to win our hearts, and then purpose by the bright influence of a kind, forgiving and confiding dispostion. We observe their gentle ways and learn to praise the God of their love and faith. We contemplate the purity of their lives and the beauty of their souls, and our hearts go out to our Lord for these bright tokens of his exceeding great mercy. Poor Sophie was as noble in spirit as she was in presence. Her whole life was a living inllustration of Christian meekners and submission. It was remaked by a dear relative as she stood by the bedside of the dying one, "Sister Sophie was always good" -- it was a fitting eulogium pronounced by truthful lips and emanating from a pure heart. She is dead -- she died in glorious womanhood. The pearly gates have opened to receive her spirit, which knew no guile and which trusted enirely in the blood of Christ. Typhoid fever of malignant type prostrated her for many weary weeks, yet no impatient sigh escaped her. She died as she had lived, calmly and beautifully, adored by her relatives and loved by her friends. (Riddicksville, N.C. November 1st, 1873)
December 2, 1874 - Sunday, BAXTER - At the residence of his uncle, Dr. O. F. Baxter, on Monday morning, December 1st at 1:30 o'clock, L. B. BAXTER, of Princess Anne county, and late of the firm of Messrs Baxter, Trezenant & Co., of Memphis Tenn. in the thirty-second year of his age. His remains will be interred today at Kempsville at 2 o'clock p.m. His friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend his funeral.
December 2, 1874 - WILKINS - Thusday morning, at 1 o'clock, JAMES E. WILKINS, of this city, in the 17th year of his age. He was a young man of most excellent character, honored and beloved by his numberous friends, and respected by all. He was serving an apprenticeship to Messrs. Denby Bros., whose esteemand confidence he enjoyed in an eminent degree. He was the pride and joy of his parents, who are plunged in the deepest grief on account of their great loss. The entire community join with them in lamenting his untimely end.
June 26, 1875 Death of a Gallant Confederate -- A telegram was received here yesterday morning from Staunton, saying that GEO. E. KING, an employee on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, was killed at Staunton on Thursday. The deceased was a son of Mr. E. King, of this city, formerly of Richmond, and was formerly a drummer-boy in the Richmond Howitzers. He was the youngest soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia at "Bull Run" and first Manassas, after which colonel Garland, of the 11th Virginia, presented him with a cadetship in the Alabama military Institute. After one year at Tuscaloose, he returned to the 11th Virginia, and served gallantly as a sergeant till the close of the war. For the past five years he followed the sea, and returned home last Christmas, having been shipwrecked. The deceased had passed through many hot battles and been thrice shipwrecked, and had only been a few days employed as a railroad hand when death overtook him. He was 38 years of age and a master Mason of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. He leaves a wife and two children in Washington.
July 20, 1875 It is our painful duty to announce the death of this old, respectful and useful citizen. He breathed his last about half past six o'clock last evening at the residence of his son-in-law, A. J. Denby, Esq. on Botetourt Street, in the 72nd year of his age. The nature of his sickness was an affliction of the heart, from which he has been suffering for the past ten days. He expired while sitting in his easy chair, and but a few monents after his physician, Dr. Tunstall, had left him. His death was peaceful and calm, apparently without pain. CAPTAIN PHILLIPS was a very valuable man. He was born in Baltimore in 1803, and came to this city about the year 1858 and at once made many fast friends among our merchants and business men, which continued up to the last. He will long be remembered as a most active and industrious man. In early life Captain Phillips followed the sea and became master of a vessel, which he commanded and sailed to various parts of the world until 1858. He then, as before stated, came to Norfolk, where he has resided ever since. During his residence among us he has filled various offices of trust, to the entire satisfaction with all with whom he came in contact. At one time he acted as agent for Mr. Richard Chamberlaine for his warf property. For a number of years he was a clerk of the Merchants and Mechanics Exchange. He has also filled the position of Harbor Master for a term, and for years has been one of the Port Wardens. He was also Marine Surveyor for Lloyds, and marine reporter for the 'Virginian.' All positions of trust he has occupied he has filled with credit. He was a hard worker, faithful in the discharge of all duties, conscientious in all his dealings, plain, bluff and true -- a man whose death will leave a void in our community -- a void that will be hard to fill. We believe that Captain Phillips was a member of the Masonic fraternity. His funeral will take place this afternoon at half-past five o'clock, from the residence of A. J. Denby, Esq., 109 Botetourt street.
August 17, 1875 Norfolk Landmark: PORTSMOUTH FATAL ACCIDENT-- A Well Known Builder Crushed to Death. Yesterday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, a terrible accident occurred in the depot of the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad, by which BARTLET A. GRIMES, a well known builder, was instantly killed. The track of the railroad within the building is about three feet above the floor, and when the cars are inside there is a space of about six inches between the sides of the cars and the floor. It appears that Mr. Grimes was walking on the track, and entered the building as the freight train was acking in, and before he could get out of the track was caught by the rearmost car and crused to death between the floor of the depot and the side of the car. He was caught in a standing position, whirled around and around until the car passed, when fe fell ofn the track lifeless. The alarm was given, and the engineer stopped the train beforethe fourth car had passed. The body was then removed from the track, and laid out on the floor. The pulse continued to beat about ten minutes. He screamed when the car first struck him, but never spoke afterwards. His coat was torn in rags, but there was no blood or bruises apparent on the body. The fatal injuries were internal. Coroner Mathews held an inquest soon after the accident. The jurors -- Messrs. W.E. Woodward, Jr., W. P. Sturtevant, Sr., Peyton Coleman, W T. Townsend, Lindsay and M.J. O'Connor -- rendered a verdict of accidental killing. The deceased was a very popular man, about thrity-five years old, and leaves a wife and three children. he was a brave and gallant Confederate soldier, having served through the war as a member of the Third Virginia Regiment. He was an active and efficient member of the Chambers fire Company. He was a carpenter by trade, and extensively engaged in building by contract, having recently completed Mahoney's Row, in Gosport and a fine brick store on Market square for William West, Esq. The hall of the C.P.C.'s of which body he was a member, and the building of the Chambers Fire Company, have been heavily draped in mourning through respect to him memory. The funeral will take placethis afternoon, at 5 o'clock, from his late residence on Wythe Street, Newtown, to which the members of the C.P.C.'s are requested by the President to attend. In the death of Bartlet Grimes our city loses a good and useful citizen. FIREMAN'S FUNERAL Norfolk Landmark August 18, 1875: The funeral of Bartlet A. Grimes, took place yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock from his late residence, Wythe street, Newtown. At 4:30 o'clock the several fire companies assembled at their head quarters and proceeded to the residence of their late comrade. The Rev. J.
Powell Garland, pastor of Monumental M.E. Church, preached an able and affecting funeral sermon. After the sermon had been concluded, the coffin was placed on the hose carriage and borus to the grave. The procession was led by the Naval Post band in full dress uniform, followed by about two hundred firemen in full uniform under Chief Engineer Cherry, and next a long train of carriages. On arriving at Portlock's Cemetery the solema services were concluded and the body deposited in the grave, "earth to earth, dust to dust."
August 17, 1875 Death of E. D. SMITH, Esq. Our Community yesterday morning was shocked by the announcement of the sudden death, from apoplexy, of E. D. SMITH, Esq., who; for a number of years, has filled the position of Teller of the Exchange National Bank. Mr.
Smith had been suffering for several weeks from an aggravated attack of strangulated hernia, but had so far recovered that he was contemplating a return to duty. Yesterday morning he ate a hearty breakfast, and spoke of paying a visit to the bank. Soon after breakfast, the fatal disease attacked him, and he died ata 9 o'clock. The deceased was born in 1833, and when quite young was attached to the old Norfolk Herald, published by Thos. G. Broughton & Son. In 1851, he obtained a clerkship in the Norfolk postoffice, of which Alexander Galt, Esq., was then postmaster. mr. Galt was succeeded by P.J. Cohen and John P. Lee, Esqs. He was then reappointed and finally succeeded by A.M. Vaughan, Esq. Mr.
Smith retained his position under the administration of these different postmasters until the year 1854, at which time he was appointed note clerk in the old Exchange Bank of Virginia. He remained in the employ of the bank until it suspended operations in 1863. In 1865 he received the appointment of bookkeeper in the Exchange National Bank and the same year, S. P. Moore, Esq. being elected cashier, Mr.
Smith was advanced to the position of Teller, which he held at the time of his death. He was a gentleman of very courteous and genial manners, and had drawn around him a large circle of admiring friends. He left a wife, and six children and other relatives to whom the heartfelt sympathies of the entire community are extended in this hour of sad bereavement. Mr.
Smith was a member of Christ Church. His funeral will take place at 5 o'clock this afternoon from his late residence, No. 35 West bute street. The Rev. Dr. O.S. Barten will conduct the funeral services and the remains will be buried with Masonic Honors as the deceased was a member of Owens Lodge No 164, A.F. and A. M.
August 18, 1875 Funeral of E. D. Smith: Pursuant to notice in the daily papers, an notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, a large number of friends of the late E. D. SMITH, Esq., assembled at the family residence on Bute street yeserday at 5 o'clock p.m. Owens Lodge convened in a special communications at 4:30 p.m. and proceeded in a body from their Lodge to the home of their departed Brother. The body was placed in a casket heavily mounted with silver and was covered by a black pall, in the centre of which was a white cross, the sign and symbol of our hopes of salvation. On this was deposited the spotless apron of a Master Mason, an "Emblem of Innocence" more excellent than the Golden Fleece or Roman Eagle. The beautiful service of the Episcopal church was read, in part, by the Rev. N. A. Okeson, rector of St. Paul's, after which the body was borne forth by the following gentlemen, friends of the deceased, who officiated as pall bearers: J. G. Baine, h. C. Whitehead, S. P. Moore, C. B. Oliver, H. C. Wilkinson, W. Talbot Walke, James Barron Hope, William Sharp......... Hardly had the procession moved when a drenching rain storm came on, which continued in an uninterruped shower until the procession halted at the grave. Here the open Bible, square and compasses were deposited at its head, and the Rev. Mr. Okeson read the sublime burial of the dead. As he began the rain ceased, and a transitory gleam of sunshine lit up the heavens. When the solemn dust to dust, had been uttered, Worshipful Past Master W.A.S. Taylor read the Masonic burial service, which is only less beautiful than that of the Church. The Masonic apron and glove were thrown into the grave; the acacia, the symbol of immortality, followed; then the public grand honors were given, and again the rain descended on the last resting place of the good citizen and spotless Mason, who had just been consigned to the bosom of his Father and his God......
August 29, 1875 The Norfolk Landmark: Death of Dr. JAMES W. LEIGH -- It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of this able physician and genial and accomplished gentleman. The sad event occurred at 1 o'clock yesterday morning, after a very protracted illness. His family and friends had een convinced for some time that his days werenumbered, as that insiduous disease consumption had a firm hold upon his system, yet his death, though expeted, has cast a deep gloom over the many who loved, admired and respected him. Dr. Leigh was born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, in the year 1829, consequently he was forty-six years old at the time of his death. In early life he selected medicine as his profession, and graduated with honor at the Richmond Medical College. He commenced the practice of medicine in Gloucester county, Virginia, but in a few years removed to Columbus, Mississippi, where he remained until 1861, when he removed to this city. He enjoyed here a large and increasing practice until failing health forced him to relinquish a portion of it, and in February, 1875, he visited his last patient. Since that time he has been confined to his house, and for several months to his bed. Dr. Leigh was one of the original members of the Norfolk Medical Society, and also a member of the Virginia Medical Society. For several years he held the position of Health Officer of this port. He was a member of the Cumberland Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and also a member of Norfolk Lodge No., 1 A.F. and A.M. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn his irreparable loss. His funeral will take place from the cumberland Street Methodist Episcopal Church this afternoon at 4 o'clock, and he will be buried with Masonic honors. (Elmwood Cemetery)
November 28, 1876 (tuesday) - Monday, the 27th, at 10 A.m. at her late residence, Mrs. CATHARINE BENNETT, in the 71st year of her age. Her funeral will take place this Tuesday at 12 o'clock, from the First Presbyterian Church. Friends and acquaintances respectfully invited to attend.
November 28, 1876 (tuesday) - At the residence of her parents at Sewell's Point, Norfolk county, on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 26th at 1 o'clock, HATTIE MAY [Bunting], infant daughter of George S. and Harriett W. BUNTING, aged 6 months
November 28, 1876 (tuesday) - at midnight, Mrs. MARY VIRGINIA STILLMAN, aged 31 years.
