The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-20
" ON AN FATALLY
INJURED IN FALL
Mrs. Showalter Dies at Hospi.
tal-John Patterson Meets
Tragic Death.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch. |

lsptNial " ne times IlSDatCh.l
stanton. Va, October ly.-On Tues
day Mrs. John w. Showalter. of this
CITY, suffered injur es in d fall, from
which she died later at the Kings
Daughters Hospital, after an opera
ton had been performed to try to save
her life.
No one knows just how the accident
occurred. Mrs. Showaltcr was an ac-
tive member of the United Brethren
Church. and the day of the accident
she was helping the family OF her pas
Tor. Rev George w. Slower. to move.
lhey found her at the foot vi the cell
lar steps lying unconscious. and later
II was seen that she had fractured he.
skull. Whether she swooned and fell
striking her head, or mistook the open
ing to the cellar and tumbled down the
stairs. is not known. as no one else
happened to he in that part Of the
mouse at the time. She was discovered
within few minutes after the acct
dent She was the daughter Of the
late Elijah and Susan Lee. of Buena,
and is survived by her husband and
one daughter. Annie II. Showalter She
was sister of John S. Lee member
OF the Common Council. and was fifty
i've years of age.
An interesting parsonage in the
state. for many years resident OF
nos 'til IelS lOI NlCkSOuTR.
Miss. where he will take charge u!
the National Cemetery as superntend
ont. in the person of John w. Bodley.
MIR. Bodley was formerly a wealthy
man, who moved the Bodley Wagon
Works from Wheeling. w. Va. his ma
tive town. to stanton in the boom
days in 1891. and ran IL here success
fully for ten or twelve years, when
he was induced to move the plant 10
memphis the move costing him his
fortune. Mr.. Bodley was red hot
Prohibi:ionist. and spent thousands OF
dollars to advance the cause In Vir-
ginla. running for the State Senate
against Hon. Edward Echols u number
OF years ago. and coming near being
elected in the warmest campaign ever
conducted in Augusta county IN the
memory of the present day inhabitants
MI Bodley was a veteran OF the Union
Army. who has the good will OF all
Confederatcs and of the whole com
mumty in fact as PERSONAL, he is
highly esteemed here. and all the lead
ing citizens of Staunton supported him
In his effort TO secure q position under
the government
Joseph p. Asst. first lieutenant of the
stanton Rifles, has been made adtu-
tant OF the Third Regiment of v!rginil
Infantry. and in his place as first lieu
tcHaHt' Johi -. Nnlte, a young MEM
Der of the Stanton bar has been
elected by the company. Mr. White IS
a graduate of the law school OF the
University of Virginia. son Of the late
Meade +. White, one OF the leading
lowers OF this part of the State
John Patterson, son of John l.. Pat
terson. of Harriston. Augusta county,
met a tragic death on last Saturday
night when he fell from window at
Paducah, Ky. He went to his office on
the fourth floor of a building to use
the telephone, which was near the
window. and it is supposed he stumbled
and fell out the window. He carried
the receiver of the telephone with him,
and II was found in his hand when he
was picked up unconscious. dying four
hours later. In his fall he struck a
negro who was passing by. and so
great was the force with which he
struck the negro that 1t dislocated the
Negroes shoulder.
The body reached stanton yester-
day on its way to Harriston FOR burial.
The young man was a graduate of the
Augusta Military Academy, at Fort
Defiance, and OF William and Mary
College He had gone to Paducah in
September to form a partnerS.ip with
a college friend to practice law.