Virgil Oscar Fear

  General Notes:

Virgil O. Fear, a Burlington, N.C. war veteran, was apparently murdered soon after his discharge from service at Fort Bragg on Oct. 18. Fear's body was found by German war prisoners beside a lonely country road in the Overhills section of Harnett county, North Carolina, not far from the Fort Bragg reservation, on Oct. 24. The service man, native of the Akron vicinity, had been shot through the head at least several days before discovery of the body. The body was taken to the fort, since it still bore an army uniform, and identification was made there. No motive for murder had been established by investigations of Harnett County Sheriff W. L. Salmon and Coroner J. M. McDean, according to the last reports received b the brother at Akron. However, it was presumed that Fear was carrying his mustering-out pay at the time of his death. Fear, in the armed forces for four years, had returned to North Carolina after nine months overseas. He visited his wife, Mary Daisy Miles Fear, and two sons, Virgil Miles [Fear] and William Mack Fear,at their home, 125 1/2 East Buffin street, Burlington, early in October, and returned to Fort Bragg to secure his discharge. They received no word from him after his departure.

Virgil married Living Miles.