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Walter James Blount

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Walter James Blount

Birth
Coal Fork, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Death
29 Jan 1938 (aged 44–45)
Carbondale, Fayette County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Malden, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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per d/c
p - Marion Blount b. WV & Anna Morton b. WV
death: This man was murdered shot in neck, bullet wound, died instantly
died: at home, Carbondale, Fayette Co., WV
46 y.o.
Married
occupation: Coal Loader / Coal Mines
informant: Mrs. Blount, Carbondale, WV
race: White

Accused Slayer's Hearing is Today

Hearing for James Perkins, 23, charged with the fatal shooting of his stepfather, Walter Blount, 45, of Carbondale in a quarrel Saturday night near Montgomery, is scheduled today before Justice of the Peace H.E. Dillon of Smithers.

Funeral services for Blount will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Coal Fork Methodist church on Campbell's Creek. The Rev. F.I. Peters will officiate and interment will be in the family cemetery at Coal Fork.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Anna Blount; his mother, Mrs. Anna M. Blount; three brothers, R.C. Blount of Coal Fork, James Blount of Ward and Dewey Blount of Summerice, and two sisters, Mrs. Martin Skyles and Mrs. Fred Wills of Coal Fork.

The body will be taken to the home of Mrs. Skyles at 5 p.m. today from the B.C. Hooper mortuary at Montgomery.
--Charleston Gazette Jan 31, 1938 Mon
per d/c
p - Marion Blount b. WV & Anna Morton b. WV
death: This man was murdered shot in neck, bullet wound, died instantly
died: at home, Carbondale, Fayette Co., WV
46 y.o.
Married
occupation: Coal Loader / Coal Mines
informant: Mrs. Blount, Carbondale, WV
race: White

Accused Slayer's Hearing is Today

Hearing for James Perkins, 23, charged with the fatal shooting of his stepfather, Walter Blount, 45, of Carbondale in a quarrel Saturday night near Montgomery, is scheduled today before Justice of the Peace H.E. Dillon of Smithers.

Funeral services for Blount will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Coal Fork Methodist church on Campbell's Creek. The Rev. F.I. Peters will officiate and interment will be in the family cemetery at Coal Fork.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Anna Blount; his mother, Mrs. Anna M. Blount; three brothers, R.C. Blount of Coal Fork, James Blount of Ward and Dewey Blount of Summerice, and two sisters, Mrs. Martin Skyles and Mrs. Fred Wills of Coal Fork.

The body will be taken to the home of Mrs. Skyles at 5 p.m. today from the B.C. Hooper mortuary at Montgomery.
--Charleston Gazette Jan 31, 1938 Mon


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  • Created by: Pj
  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87222241/walter_james-blount: accessed ), memorial page for Walter James Blount (1893–29 Jan 1938), Find a Grave Memorial ID 87222241, citing Coal Fork Cemetery, Malden, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA; Maintained by Pj (contributor 47435333).