Advertisement

Advertisement

Sidney Atherton

Birth
Mathews County, Virginia, USA
Death
12 Jan 1919 (aged 34)
Norfolk, Norfolk City, Virginia, USA
Burial
Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section H/Lot 483/Grave 7
Memorial ID
View Source
ATHERTON -- On January 12, 1919, at Norfold, Va., SYDNEY, husband of Nellie Atherton (nee Morgan).

Funeral from the residence of his father-in-law, No. 1404 North Lakewood Avenue, thence to St. Catherine's Church where a Requiem High Mass will be said. Intemrent private in Bonnie Brae Cemetery.

Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) January 14, 1919
****
Superintent King, of the Baltimore lighthouse district, was yesterday notified of the death in a hospital in Norfolk on Suday of Chief Officer Sidney Atherton, of the tender ORchid. The cause of death was influenza, which is incapacitating the forces of the district.

Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) January 14, 1919
****
The funeral of Sidney Atherton, who died of pneumonia on January 12, was held from the home of his paarents, Mr. and Mrs. Moses ATherton, 1404 Lakewood Avenue. Burial was in Bonnie Brae Cemetery.

Besides his parents he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nellie ATherton; three sisters, Misses Ora and Effie Atherton, of Hudgins, WV, Mrs. A. Davis, Broadwater, Va., and one brother, Richard Atherton, who is not at sea.

Mr. Atherton, who at the time of his death was first officer of the lighthouse tneder ORchid, entered the Lighthouse Service in 1907.

Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) January 21, 1919
********************
ATHERTON -- On January 12, 1919, at Norfold, Va., SYDNEY, husband of Nellie Atherton (nee Morgan).

Funeral from the residence of his father-in-law, No. 1404 North Lakewood Avenue, thence to St. Catherine's Church where a Requiem High Mass will be said. Intemrent private in Bonnie Brae Cemetery.

Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) January 14, 1919
****
Superintent King, of the Baltimore lighthouse district, was yesterday notified of the death in a hospital in Norfolk on Suday of Chief Officer Sidney Atherton, of the tender ORchid. The cause of death was influenza, which is incapacitating the forces of the district.

Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) January 14, 1919
****
The funeral of Sidney Atherton, who died of pneumonia on January 12, was held from the home of his paarents, Mr. and Mrs. Moses ATherton, 1404 Lakewood Avenue. Burial was in Bonnie Brae Cemetery.

Besides his parents he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nellie ATherton; three sisters, Misses Ora and Effie Atherton, of Hudgins, WV, Mrs. A. Davis, Broadwater, Va., and one brother, Richard Atherton, who is not at sea.

Mr. Atherton, who at the time of his death was first officer of the lighthouse tneder ORchid, entered the Lighthouse Service in 1907.

Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) January 21, 1919
********************


Sponsored by Ancestry

Advertisement

  • Created by: Sanebee
  • Added: Jan 3, 2021
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220560437/sidney-atherton: accessed ), memorial page for Sidney Atherton (28 Dec 1884–12 Jan 1919), Find a Grave Memorial ID 220560437, citing New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA; Maintained by Sanebee (contributor 47775620).