The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-19
YOUNe LADY
DIES SUDDENLY
Miss Nellie A. Sutherland Passes
Away While Preparing For
Minor Operation.
WILL RECEIVE r
Funeral This Afternoon OF Two Vic
TINS of Friday Nights Accident.
Real Estate Market Active During
Week

) many months past was that OF Miss
Nellie A. Sutherland the eldest daugh-
ter of Mr. j. Winston and Mrs
. Florence Gresham Sutherland. about
O'Clock this afternoon.
Miss Sutherland. in company with
her younger sister, Miss Mary Suther-
land, had gone to the Office of DIR. G.
s. Dodi, eye nose and ear specialist.
to have a minor operation performed
on Miss Nellies nose. While prepa-
rations were being made for the OPP
Grafton. Miss Sutherland complained
Of feeling sick and expired in few
minutes
The death of the young lady has
cast a gloom over the entire comma
nifty. In which she was wellknown
and highly esteemed Her parents
had for many years resided In Peters
burg. and We're Of the original mem
hers of the West End Baptist Church.
In which the father has been val
ued member and deacon for many
years.
Il Mr. and Mrs Sutherland have sue
ceeded few parents do in rearing
all of their five children to be Chris
tian men and women, the elder boy,
J. Robert Sutherland, being a deacon
and clerk of the West End Baptist
Church and Miss Nellie herself was
the teacher of splendid class of boys.
in addition To being a beloved mem
her Of the church choir
While she had been in her usua!
health. death supposed to have re-
suited from heart failure. Besides her
parents. she is survived by two broth
crS and two sisters-J. Robert, or re-
tesaburg; Charles w, of stony Creek,
"a rrta
land. Of Petersburg
A coroner jury empaneled tonight
returned a verdict 10 the effect that
the deeease came to her death from
2 acute dilutation Of the heart. The
( funeral will take place at O'Clock
= Monday afternoon from the church
A of which deceased WAS a member
Accident Victims Funeral Today.
+, The bodies of John Andrew Gould,
= aged eighteen years, and Percy j.
! Hollywood, aged nineteen years, who
were killed in a collision between an
, automobile truck and Norfolk ana
= / Western Railway train at Cedar Level,
' Prince George County, shortly after
> 10 o'clock last vening, have been pre-
pared for burial and are being held
. at the morgue of j. T. Morriss Il Son
from which place they will be re-
;, moved to the Second Baptist Church
- at 400 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
!. where the double funeral will be con-
: Quoted.
The accident is one OF the saddest
: in recent years. Young Gould was
the son of Mrs James G.. Gould, of
, Chesterfield County Young Hog
wood s parents are dead. but he Is
n survived by his grandparents. Mr.. and
Mrs George Winfield, both of Peters
' burg, and several brothers,
All of the six who were injured. the
u names of whom We're correctly pub
E. tished in this mornings Nirginian, are
at the Petersburg Hospital and hopes
8 are entertained for the recovery OF all
= Of them.
n Mrs. Elizabeth Bannan.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bannan. q we'll
=. known and respected lady aged
eighty years died at her residence in
- Bollingbrook Street very suddenly at
an early hour this morning Mrs.
,, Bannan had been in feeble health for
: several years, but her death was en-
! tireIy unexpected She was a native
y of Switzerland but came to this
+, country when she was a small child
~ and had resided in Petersburg sew
r eral years prior to the War Between
= the States. Her husband was the late
:" Michael Bannan. OF this city. She
p
~ ter. MIR. Lawrence Bannon and Miss
Annie Bannan. both Of Petersburg.
! Tried to Pass Check He Found.
g. The case of the Commonwealth
ar against w. r.. Barker, n young white
man. charged with felony. was heard
r. in the Police Court this morning. The
s specific charge against the young man
was that of having in his possession
uniawfully ani attempting TO pass an
G. alleged forged check on the Jefferson
Liquor Company, which was drawn
- by the Dupont Powder Company In
favor of Lewis j. Holt for s5I.7o
s. Holt testified that he had never seen
the check, and in consequence had
never endorsed 1t. Barker testified
that he found the check and a meal
ticket between Petersburg and Hope
well and acknowledged that he at
tempted to pass 1t, but denied having
endorsed 1t.
Commemorative Attorney Samuel
= w. thinner stated frankly to the
y, court that he did not think the evil
- dence sufficient to convict the accused
=, of forgery in the Hastings Court Mr.
= Hamilton Wilcox represented the de-
PENDANT. and after argument Justice
Plummer found the accused guilty and
fined him $50.
Veterans to Visit Petersburg.
General Stith Boiling is In receipt
Of letter from the ajiutant- general
of the Grand Army Of the Republic to
the effect that after the adjournment
of the Union veterans in Washington,
ID c.. the latter part Of this month,
about seventy Ave of them will visit
the battleAelds around Petersburg.
Real Estate Active.
The Petersburg real estate market
during the week has been quite ac-
tive. Among the deeds of bargain and
sale recorded In the Office of Clerk
Robert G.. BAGS are the following:
Mary r. Robinson ct al. to J. James
Grigg, lot sorth side Pearl Street,
81 AGO.
Z Minnie l.. Wells ct al to w NJ
!, Ruciser. lot s,uth side of Rome
y Street
q Raymond c, Parsons to W H.
= ,Cogle lot southwest corner Rurch
and Watson Streets
), Belle Lavenstetn to NJ. Arenson. lot
;. on south side Bollingbrook Street.
Rose Lavenstein to NJ Arenson, lot