Mother: Melinda Adelaide Blevins (1855 Meigs co TN-1918 Marion co TN)
Mother: Melinda Adelaide Blevins (1855 Meigs co TN-1918 Marion co TN)
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Item found in the Columbus Dispatch (Columbus Commercial) of Columbus Miss on 20 Apr 1916. It was on the front page:
"Peter Powers, a Blacksmith, living at Stafford, Alabama, who was run down by a train on the Montgomery Division of the Mobile and Ohio last Sunday, 16 Apr 1916, and who was later brought to the McKinley Sanitarium for treatment died about 11 O'clock...(about 4 words are unreadable), of injuries. Mr. Powers had visited Columbus Sunday, and it is said that while here he became intoxicated. He took a train, presumably with the intention of going to his home in Stafford, but got off at McCreary, and sat down on the track, where he went to sleep, some time later an east bound freight train came along and knocked him from his position, his skull having been fractured by the blow. He was rushed to this city and received every possible attention, but the wound was so serious that the efforts to save his life proved futile. Deceased was about 45 years old and is survived by his wife and several children. He formerly worked for Mr. H. C. Foreman, who for a number of years conducted a blacksmith shop on Bell Avenue, and was well known in this city, where he had a number of friends who sincerely sympathize with the family in the profound grief which his untimely grief entails."(This according to the Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS/Frieda Patrick Davison/Professor and Director of Library Services/[email protected]) Ms. Davison stated that at this particular time the newspaper was actually published as the Columbus Commercial. Also the Belle Avenue that it mentions in the article "T's" into the east side of the university campus.
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