The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-19
MAY take BODY
Home FOR BURIAL
Permission Granted by DIR. Brod-
max for Removal From
Medical College.
OLA THAxToN's PAST LIFE
Served Several Terms in County
Home at Raleigh Before
Coming Here.
OLA THAxToN's PAST LIFE

PERMISSION was given yesterday by
Dr.. John W. Brodnax. of the State
Anatomical Board for the removal of
Ola Thaxton's body from the picking
vat at the Medical College of Virginia.
although up to last night it had not
been claimed by Lee Thaxton, a broth
er. ThaXton came to Richmond from
Raleigh on Monday to institute n
search, after his father had failed to
claim the body when the girl died
ct the City Home In March. Records
on ME at the Health Department show
ed that the body had been delivered
by Under taker Bliley to the State Ana
tomical Board on May 10. but it was
not known until an investigation was
made yesterday morning that IL was
now at the college.
kilograms from Raleigh last night
stated that the matter was in tho
hands of Lee Thaxton. and that John
IhaNton, the father. was unable to
provide funds for removal and burial
The Thaxtons are poor working peo.
pie the girl herself having been en-
ployed in factories. The statement
printed by some OF the newspapers
that she was one OF the beautiful bellies
OF Raleigh is not In accord with the
facts.
Incl VI Foiice Stcll, or that city.
said yesterday that the girl had serv-
ed several terms in the county home
ane that SHE had just been released
when she came TO Richmond. Much
that the Raleigh police discovered was
unprintabic
dispatch from Raleigh last night
said:
John Thaxton insists that his fam
ilE mas been treated very unfairly and
inhumanly by somebody in Richmond
he received notice of the death of his
| daughter and request to provide TO-.
shipment of the body to Raleigh II he
desired It's return He deposited $3.50
with the express agent here, represent
lug the double railroad fare. Some time
later he was notified that 1t would be
necessary to send s35 more to pay for
embalming. The Thaxtons are poyertv
stricken. and they declare that they
were not able to raise any more The
$3.50 was returned to them with no
tice that under the Virginia law the
undertaken would be obliged to turn
the body over TO the anatomical boa I'd
for the use of the medical colleges
This correspondence was with the Jos
eph w. Rliley Undertaking COMPANY
Mrs ThaNton says she was quite
SICK all this time. but that she had a
letter written appealing that the body
OF her daughter he not used for dis
SNS'''iB Pun pVScS, tndt she mad FAR
rather have her own body cut UP than
for the remains of her daughter 10
meet such fate.
Could Not RINSE Money.
They were told that the body could
be buried for $50. but that they iust
could not raise the money Mrs Thax-
ton also says that they were advised
by local undertaken that II they sent
the money they would have no assur
ancc that the body of their daughter
would be buried The mother, espec-
Tally. is very much stirred up over the
situation and asked pleadirgly several
times il there was any probability OF
the remains being really found and
brought back here whole, SO she could
look upon her daughters form again.
They say Ola ThaNton left here last
October. and that she was twenty-five
years old.
Thaxton says the whole matter of
the return of the body to Raleigh rests
with his son, Lee Thaxton, now in
Richmond; that If he can arrange 1t
they Will be mighty glad. but that he
cannot possibly raise any money for
the purpose now. They live in a three
room tenement. in one OF the poorest
sections of the city. The son. Lee, and
the deceased daughter are their only
children"