Birth: Apr. 19, 1894 

Death: Aug. 10, 1954 at Chase City

son of  James B. Stembridge and Nannie Gregory

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Runaway Tractor Kills Man
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Chase City, Aug. 11 - Silas W. Stembridge, a 60-year-old farmer, was
fatally injured last night on his farm near Skipwith when he was knocked
down and dragged and pinned against a tree by a runaway tractor.

A report said that Stembridge had started the tractor while standing beside
it, not knowing the machine was in gear. The tractor bucked, caught him
under a wheel and dragged him to a tree, where it stopped and held him
fast. He died later in a South Hill Hospital.

A funeral service will be held at 3 P. M. Friday at Bethel Baptist Church
here, with burial in the church cemetery.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Bessie Lee Stembridge; four sons, Silas W.
Stembridge, Jr of Chase City, and Tom, Robert and Bryant Stembridge, all of
Skipwith; two daughters, Mrs. Nannie Lee Homaker, of Richmond and Miss
Valera Stembridge of Skipwith; six sisters, Mrs. Theresa Jones, Mrs. Annie
Gregory and Mrs. Ethel Seamans, all of Skipwith; Mrs. Mildred Dutcher, of
Asheville, N. C.; Mrs. Maude Gregory, of Chase City, and Mrs. Lillian
Wooton of Blackstone; three brothers, Charles S. Stembridge, of Skipwith;
Finish Skipwith, of Chase City, and J. P. Stembridge, of Oxford, N. C., and
six grandchildren.

NOTE: the last surviving sibling (his sister, Mildred Stembridge Dutcher)
recently celebrated her 50th anniversary.