Name Edmond Kerr Tatum
Event Type Death
Event Date 10 Dec 1939
Event Place Martinsville, Henry, Virginia
Registration Date 01 Jan 1940
Gender Male
Age 14
Race White
Birth Date Feb 1925
Father's Name J W Tatum
Mother's Name Garnet Tatum
MARTINSVILLE DAILY BULLETIN, Mon., Dec. 11, 1939
An "unloaded gun' yesterday morning claimed the life of Edmund Kerr Tatum, 14-year-old popular Ridgeway High school student, and a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wofford Tatum, of South Martinsville, who died of an accidental pistol shot, the bullet piercing the youth's heart, causing almost instant death.
Tatum was working at the Standard Service Station at the north end of Smith River Bridge, three miles south of Martinsville, was showing a customer, R. J. Williams, North Wilkesboro, N.C., a .32 caliber pistol when it accidentally discharged. Williams said the gun went off as Tatum, holding the weapon by its barrel, handed it to him. Neither knew that the gun was loaded. J. R. Cliff, proprietor of the station, said that the gun was not on sale, and was merely placed in the display case for safe-keeping, since he kept it in the sleeping quarters of the building at night.
The wounded youth died on route to Shackelford hospital in an ambulance.
Technical charges of manslaughter were placed against Williams.
Tatum' death marked the 28th time this year a Henry countain has met violent death.
Funeral services for the deceased will be held at Nettle Ridge Methodist Church tomorrow.
Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Surviving are the parents; seven brothers: Richard, Abe, Billy, Wilson, Thomas, Robert and David Tatum; two sisters, Nancy and Garnett Lee Tatum; one half-sister, Mrs. Rose Mulcare, Roanoke and two half-brothers, Phillip Tatum, Winston-Salem, N.C., and Jim Tatum of Philadelphia.
Event Type Death
Event Date 10 Dec 1939
Event Place Martinsville, Henry, Virginia
Registration Date 01 Jan 1940
Gender Male
Age 14
Race White
Birth Date Feb 1925
Father's Name J W Tatum
Mother's Name Garnet Tatum
MARTINSVILLE DAILY BULLETIN, Mon., Dec. 11, 1939
An "unloaded gun' yesterday morning claimed the life of Edmund Kerr Tatum, 14-year-old popular Ridgeway High school student, and a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wofford Tatum, of South Martinsville, who died of an accidental pistol shot, the bullet piercing the youth's heart, causing almost instant death.
Tatum was working at the Standard Service Station at the north end of Smith River Bridge, three miles south of Martinsville, was showing a customer, R. J. Williams, North Wilkesboro, N.C., a .32 caliber pistol when it accidentally discharged. Williams said the gun went off as Tatum, holding the weapon by its barrel, handed it to him. Neither knew that the gun was loaded. J. R. Cliff, proprietor of the station, said that the gun was not on sale, and was merely placed in the display case for safe-keeping, since he kept it in the sleeping quarters of the building at night.
The wounded youth died on route to Shackelford hospital in an ambulance.
Technical charges of manslaughter were placed against Williams.
Tatum' death marked the 28th time this year a Henry countain has met violent death.
Funeral services for the deceased will be held at Nettle Ridge Methodist Church tomorrow.
Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Surviving are the parents; seven brothers: Richard, Abe, Billy, Wilson, Thomas, Robert and David Tatum; two sisters, Nancy and Garnett Lee Tatum; one half-sister, Mrs. Rose Mulcare, Roanoke and two half-brothers, Phillip Tatum, Winston-Salem, N.C., and Jim Tatum of Philadelphia.
Name Edmond Kerr Tatum
Event Type Death
Event Date 10 Dec 1939
Event Place Martinsville, Henry, Virginia
Registration Date 01 Jan 1940
Gender Male
Age 14
Race White
Birth Date Feb 1925
Father's Name J W Tatum
Mother's Name Garnet Tatum
MARTINSVILLE DAILY BULLETIN, Mon., Dec. 11, 1939
An "unloaded gun' yesterday morning claimed the life of Edmund Kerr Tatum, 14-year-old popular Ridgeway High school student, and a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wofford Tatum, of South Martinsville, who died of an accidental pistol shot, the bullet piercing the youth's heart, causing almost instant death.
Tatum was working at the Standard Service Station at the north end of Smith River Bridge, three miles south of Martinsville, was showing a customer, R. J. Williams, North Wilkesboro, N.C., a .32 caliber pistol when it accidentally discharged. Williams said the gun went off as Tatum, holding the weapon by its barrel, handed it to him. Neither knew that the gun was loaded. J. R. Cliff, proprietor of the station, said that the gun was not on sale, and was merely placed in the display case for safe-keeping, since he kept it in the sleeping quarters of the building at night.
The wounded youth died on route to Shackelford hospital in an ambulance.
Technical charges of manslaughter were placed against Williams.
Tatum' death marked the 28th time this year a Henry countain has met violent death.
Funeral services for the deceased will be held at Nettle Ridge Methodist Church tomorrow.
Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Surviving are the parents; seven brothers: Richard, Abe, Billy, Wilson, Thomas, Robert and David Tatum; two sisters, Nancy and Garnett Lee Tatum; one half-sister, Mrs. Rose Mulcare, Roanoke and two half-brothers, Phillip Tatum, Winston-Salem, N.C., and Jim Tatum of Philadelphia.
Event Type Death
Event Date 10 Dec 1939
Event Place Martinsville, Henry, Virginia
Registration Date 01 Jan 1940
Gender Male
Age 14
Race White
Birth Date Feb 1925
Father's Name J W Tatum
Mother's Name Garnet Tatum
MARTINSVILLE DAILY BULLETIN, Mon., Dec. 11, 1939
An "unloaded gun' yesterday morning claimed the life of Edmund Kerr Tatum, 14-year-old popular Ridgeway High school student, and a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wofford Tatum, of South Martinsville, who died of an accidental pistol shot, the bullet piercing the youth's heart, causing almost instant death.
Tatum was working at the Standard Service Station at the north end of Smith River Bridge, three miles south of Martinsville, was showing a customer, R. J. Williams, North Wilkesboro, N.C., a .32 caliber pistol when it accidentally discharged. Williams said the gun went off as Tatum, holding the weapon by its barrel, handed it to him. Neither knew that the gun was loaded. J. R. Cliff, proprietor of the station, said that the gun was not on sale, and was merely placed in the display case for safe-keeping, since he kept it in the sleeping quarters of the building at night.
The wounded youth died on route to Shackelford hospital in an ambulance.
Technical charges of manslaughter were placed against Williams.
Tatum' death marked the 28th time this year a Henry countain has met violent death.
Funeral services for the deceased will be held at Nettle Ridge Methodist Church tomorrow.
Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Surviving are the parents; seven brothers: Richard, Abe, Billy, Wilson, Thomas, Robert and David Tatum; two sisters, Nancy and Garnett Lee Tatum; one half-sister, Mrs. Rose Mulcare, Roanoke and two half-brothers, Phillip Tatum, Winston-Salem, N.C., and Jim Tatum of Philadelphia.
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