James Reid Sterrett

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CENSUS RECORDS

1900 Census
Name: Reed Sterrett
Age: 8
Birth Date: Jan 1892
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1900: South River, Rockbridge, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's name: Mack M Sterrett
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's name: Laura Sterrett
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Household Members:
Mack M Sterrett 32
Laura Sterrett 23 [33]
Cornelia S Sterrett 12
Reed Sterrett 10
Isabel Sterrett 9
Allie Sterrett 8
Frank Sterrett 6
Edward Sterrett 3
Mack M Sterrett 1
Margarett Jarvis 24 [servant]
Margarett Jarvis 11 months
Frank Jarvis 3

OBITUARY

Richmond Times-Dispatch; 29 May 1915

James Reid Sterrett died of blood poisoning yesterday morning at 11 o'clock at Grace Hospital. He was employed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in bridge construction work at Louisa, Ky. and underwent about two months ago, in the Chesapeake and Ohio Hospital at Huntington, W.Va., an operation on the cartilage of the knee. A week ago he was brought to Richmond.

The funeral services will take place this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the chapel of Union Theological Seminary, and will be conducted by Rev. Thomas C. Johnson, D.D. of the Seminary faculty, assisted by Rev. R.C. Stribling, D.D. of Petersburg. The burial will be in Hollywood.

Mr. Sterrett is survived by his wife, who was Miss. Frances Houston, of Buchanan, Va.; also by his mother, Mrs. Laura Sterrett, the matron at Union Theological Seminary, and three sisters, Misses. Isabel and Alice Sterrett of Ginter Park, and Mrs. Joseph B. Bailey of Emporia, and four brothers Frank and Edwin Sterrett of Richmond, and Mac and Thornton Sterrett of Lexington. He was twenty-seven years of age.

Buried:
Grave location and obituary:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69782112

Died:
Virginia, Deaths, 1912-2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia.
Name: J.R. Sterrett
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age at Death: 27
Birth Date: abt 1888
Death Date: 28 May 1915
Death Place: Richmond, Henrico, Virginia
Cause: blood poisoning, streptocic infection of leg
Registration Date: 28 May 1915

James married Frances Jane Houston. Frances was born 10 Sep 1879, Goochland Co. VA; died 06 Aug 1963, Warren Co. VA; was buried , Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA,. [Group Sheet]