Basic Identification
Gender: male
Ethnicity:
Immigration:
Attributed Race: white
Free or Enslaved: free
Birth & Family
Birth Date: 1825/00/00
Birthplace: Virginia
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Father:
1st Spouse:
2nd Spouse: male
Age Details
Age: 35
Age Group: adult (20-59)
Life Details
Occupation(s): miller employed by Langhorne & Scott [mill]
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Military Service:
Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia
Last Address:
Death
Death Date: 1860/07/04
Death Note: none
Place of Death:
Cause of Death: accidental shotgun wound to stomach (see newspaper)
Burial & Undertaking
Burial Date: 1860/07/05
Funeral Home: Diuguid
Diuguid ID Number: D0434904
Indigent?: private interment
Gravesite and Grave Marker Data
Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: none
Section: C42
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Grave Marker Erector(s):
Confirmation Source for Interment: Diuguid records
Obituary and Biographical Detials
From the Richmond Dispatch, 6 July 1860:
“During the day [July 4], two painful accidents occurred in or about the city, one of which proved fatal. One was caused by a gunner taking his thumb from the touch-hole of the cannon…the other [incident], which proved fatal, was caused by the accidental discharge of a shot gun, in the hands of Thos. Corbit, the load taking effect in the stomach of Thos. Corbit, the load taking effect in the stomach of Thos. Pringle, a miller, in the employ of Langhorne & Scott, of this city. The parties were shooting fish in that portion of the canal from which the water had been drawn off; and at the time of the occurrence, the unfortunate man had $160 in gold, mostly in $20 pieces, in his vest pocket, which was struck by the greater portion of the shot from the gun and knocked entirely from his pocket. The force of the blow was so great as to bend one or two of the gold pieces nearly double.
–O. K.”