| Obituary | Mar 15, 1938 | OBITUARY: Albert Shiflett, thirty-nine, a farmer residing near Alberene, died at 5:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the University of Virginia Hospital from the effects of gun shot wounds in the chest self inflicted about 10 o'clock last Friday night, following his arrest by ABC officers on a liquor distilling charge. Taken into custody by the officers at his home on Friday, Shiflett made his escape after being permitted to go back into his house for a few personal possessions. He was rushed to the hospital here in a Scottsville ambulance, arriving at 2:30 o'clock Saturday morning and was operated upon at 4:30 that morning. He was a native of Greene County, son of the late Studavin and Polly (Frazier) Shiflett. He married Miss Mary Shiflett, of Alberene, who survives with four children, James, Ruth, Edna and Ralph Shiflett. He also leaves two brothers and three sisters -- Robert Harris Shiflett, of Crozet; Thomas Shiflett, of Baltimore; Mrs. Virgie Frazier, of Morgantown, W. Va; Mrs. Bertha Frazier of Brown's Cove, this county, and Mrs. Gertrude Shiflett, of Schuyler, Nelson County. The funeral will be held at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the Mission Home, this county, near the Greene County line, the service to be conducted by the Rev. W. Roy Mason, D. D. of the Episcopal Church. Interment will be in the family plot at the Mission Home. The funeral party will leave the Hill & Irving Funeral Home at 2:30 o'clock.
Published in The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA - 15 March 1938.1
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