Deaths Reported in Floyd County Times (1932-1952)

Listing by Surname

This page contains a list of folks who passed prior to 1953. These obituaries were found in the Floyd County Times. The deaths are listed by year but in no other particular order.

The source of this list in unknown.

1932 1941 1942 1952


1932

September 2, 1932

Mrs. Hattie Akers, 33, died Thursday 08-30-1932 of burns suffered when she fell, unconscious, into embers beneath a wash-kettle, at her Dana home

Warren M. Meek, 62, of Auxier, Tuesday, 08-30-1932 at Paintsville

Raymond Smith, 4, son of Wince Smith, of Betsy Layne August 24 1932, at a Martin hospital.

August 12, 1932

Lee P. Harris, 57, former mayor of Prestonsburg, Monday at his home here;

George Duke, 21, of Hueysville, in an auto wreck, Sunday, near Muskogee, Oklahoma. (Al Patton, 28, also of Hueysville, was seriously hurt in the same wreck)

Mrs. Delilah Hale Stephens, 57, Wednesday, at her home at Dock

Mrs. W. W. Branham, 53, of Wheelwright, Monday, at a Pikeville hospital

the seven-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Miller, of Dock, Saturday.

August 5, 1932

The five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Estill Hughes, at Martin, Sunday.

July 29, 1932

Emmett Sanders, 35, Tuesday evening, in a slatefall at the Elk Horn Coal Corporation mine, Garrett;

Dewey Kelly, of Van Lear, last Thursday, of a skull fracture, sustained when he fell from a train at the Middle Creek railroad bridge here

Mrs. Hall, 18, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Music, of May's Branch, Monday, at a Martin hospital.

July 24, 1932

John Bud Harris, 65, Sunday, at his home on Stephens Branch;

Mrs. Mollie Campbell, 60, July 14, at West Prestonsburg

Mrs. Mary Hopkins, 76, of Harold, Monday, at a Martin hospital.

July 15, 1932

Charlie Johnson, 20, was killed, and Nat Hall, 24, was wounded during the week in separate frays...

Hoover Hinton, 35, Dwale policeman, died Monday in a Martin hospital, the third to succumb to wounds sustained in a gun battle, July 2...

June 24, 1932

Deputy Constable Willard Hamilton, 48, was fatally wounded last Thursday night...

Mrs. Alpha Nelson, about 55, Monday, at her home on Town Branch

Ethel, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mont Gibson, Wednesday, at the Gibson home, here

Mrs. Beatrice Price Leslie, 24, of Emma, Saturday, at a Paintsville hospital

Luther, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mosley, of Emma, Friday, at a Martin hospital.

June 17, 1932

Andrew Spradlin, 27, of Tram, was killed, Tuesday morning, by a train;

Alvin C. Patrick, 78, Saturday, near Hueysville.

June 10, 1932

Juanita Weddington, 15, at Wayland

Mrs. Bee Hall at Garrett.

June 3, 1932

Charles Roberts, 25, was killed by a train near here, early Friday morning...

Mrs. Hulda Waddell, 41, May 25, at her home on Abbott Creek.

May 27, 1932

Silas Spurlock, 47, in a car wreck, Friday

Mr. Branham when hit by a car, Monday.

Mrs. Alice G. Hopkins, 74, widow of Ex-Congressman J. A. Hopkins, of Prestonsburg, May 22, at Memorial Hospital, Huntington, W.Va.

R. V. Wohlford, 62, Martin merchant, May 17, at the Beaver Valley Hospital,

Mrs. J. B. Bolen, May 22, at Garrett.

April 29, 1932

Mrs. Carolyn Ryan, 79, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.H. Holcomb

Mrs. Frank Wolfe, 30, at Hueysville, April 25.

1941 Deaths Reported

December 18, 1941

Robert Graham Harris, 57, prominent Texas insurance man and native of Prestonsburg, last Thursday in an El Paso hospital

Glenn Homer Burke, 26, of Wayland, of injuries received in an auto accident at Lackey Saturday night

Deward Stratton, 29, of Ivel, December 10, at the home of her mother

Hulda Cole, 58, of Melvin, Saturday, victim of an auto accident in Letcher county

Bill Weddington, 32, of Mossy Bottom, Saturday, after being struck by an automobile in Pike County

Lizzie Beach Wright, 74, Sunday morning, at her home in West Prestonsburg.

December 11, 1941

Body of George Symon, 59-year-old mine superintendent for the Stephens Elkhorn Coal Co. at Manton, was recovered Monday night. A gas explosion, about 6000 feet back in the mine, is believed to have resulted in the mine veteran's death.

Newton L. Lykins, 84, former Floyd resident, at his residence at Glasgow, Ky.

Thomas Lafferty, 40-year-old Bull Creek farmer, of peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix

Nevada George, 73, at the home of her son.

December 4, 1941

Manuel Slone, 58, of Paintsville, died in an auto wreck near Maytown.

November 27, 1941

'Uncle' Jeff Blackburn, 82, Saturday, at the home of a son here

Arnold Prater, 24, of Garrett, last Thursday, following the crash of his auto near the mouth of Brush Creek

'Uncle' Dick Allen, 72, Sunday, at his home at Dana

Ellen Music, 83, November 19, at her home on Abbott Creek

James Harry Clark, 59, last Thursday, at his home at Allen

David C. Cooley, 46, Wednesday, at the home of a sister at Auxier.

November 20, 1941

Gladys Marie Daniels, 29, of Prestonsburg, at the hospital, here, Saturday

Mary Layne, 85, Sunday, at her home at Betsy Layne

Samuel Tilden Conley, 42, of Ashland, formerly of Bonanza, in an Ashland hospital; Saturday

'Aunt' Kate Wireman, 66, Saturday, at her home on Abbott Creek.

November 13, 1941

Emily May Ratliff, sister of Congressman A.J. May, Tuesday night at Warco

Elizabeth Akers Tackett, 87, Thursday night at McDowell

Catherine Hutsinpiller, 86, Monday, in Gallipolis, O.

W. M. Vanderpool, 73, well-known West Prestonsburg man, Sunday, at his home

Elizabeth Cynthia Harmon, 84, Wednesday, at Betsy Layne.

November 6, 1941

Pvt. Banner Conn, formerly of this county, Tuesday, at Marston's Mills, Mass., of injuries received in an auto accident

Maurice Cleveland, 20, of Glo, in an auto accident at Lackey, Monday

Lorraine Harris, 33, native of this county, in an auto accident in Ashland, last Thursday

Minta Herald Harris, 41, Sunday at her home on Cow Creek

Burnetta Newsome, three-year-old daughter of Willard and Rose Henson Newsome, of Ligon, Monday, at a Martin hospital

Harmon C. Tackett, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curt Tackett, of Fed, Tuesday, at a Martin hospital.

November 30, 1941

Ballard Childers, 45, of Emma, in a rock and slate fall Friday afternoon in the Sandy Valley Coal Company mine at Water Gap

George Crum, victim of a heart attack on his 68th birthday, October 23, at his home at Cliff

Robert Lee Frazier, 76, Friday at the home at Martin of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Crisp

Isabel Burchwell, 52, at her home at Drift, Saturday, victim of an accidental gunshot wound; Gwendolyn Martin, 21, of Garrett, Friday

Bobby Coburn, 9, son of Mrs. Vic Coburn, Tuesday; Kenneth Eugene Shepherd, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Shepherd, of West Prestonsburg, Monday.

October 23, 1941

Last rites were said, Friday afternoon, for T.J. 'Uncle Jeff' Sizemore, 99-year-old Civil War veteran, who died last Wednesday at his home on Town Branch, near here..

Evoline Little, 48, of Wheelwright, in an auto accident, Sunday, near West Liberty

Rayfield Price, 54, of Weeksbury, Friday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin.

October 16, 1941

'Uncle' Jeff Sizemore, 99, veteran of the Union Army, Wednesday, at his home near here

William Aldridge, 73, Oct. 4, at the Stumbo Hospital, Lackey

Martin Risner, of Bypro, Saturday, at a Martin hospital

Ballan Gearheart, 66, native of Hueysville, Oct. 3, at Palisade, Colorado.

October 9, 1941

One man was killed and five others injured, Monday afternoon, in the mine of the Payne-Baber Coal Company, Clear Creek, Melvin Osborne, 41, died instantly, and injured were Duran Hall, Anderson Moore, Wes Bryant, Zollie Bryant and Rich Ferguson

Robert Lee Cecil, 20, of Ivel, when he was thrown from a truck at Tram, Saturday night

Harris Howard, wealthy landowner and father of Atty. J.W. Howard, Prestonsburg, at his home at White Oak, Wednesday

Martha Hicks, 30, at her home at Topmost, Saturday

Martha Coburn, 77, September 26, at the home of a sister at Martin

Sarah Akers Hatfield, 68, Thursday, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Walter Hall, at Amba.

October 2, 1941

P. H. Allen, 44, of Prestonsburg, last Thursday, at the Methodist Hospital, Pikeville

E. C. (Con) Cheek, 72, Wheelwright peace officer, Tuesday, at the Methodist Hospital, Pikeville

Carl Edward Hamilton, 23, of Melvin, Sunday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin.

September 25, 1941

A shot from a high-powered rifle, fired early Tuesday morning, from the hillside facing his store at Halo, Jack's Creek, resulted in the death, Wednesday morning, of Noah Johnson, 28, prominent Jack's Creek merchant and assistant postmaster at Halo.

Body of Joe Carr, 32-year-old Allen man, was found early Tuesday morning on the railway tracks, a short distance above the highway bridge across the Big Sandy at Allen; and early the following day Raymond Boyd, 23, of Emma, was found unconscious on the highway near that community, where the wheels of at least one vehicle are known to have crossed his body. Boyd later died.

Mart V. Allen, 49, Floyd County native, last Thursday, at a Harlan hospital

Jasper Bryant, 33, formerly of Ligon, Saturday, in Pike County

Finley Roberts, 39, Martin barber, last Thursday at the home of his mother at Martin

J. G. Hinkle, 60, Tuesday evening, at the home of a son at Martin.

September 11, 1941

Matilda Newsome, 43, of Melvin, Sunday

Calvin Jones, 100-year-old Confederate Army veteran, formerly of this county, recently in Boyd County.

September 4, 1941

George Burchett, 47, World War I veteran, Sunday, at Veterans' Hospital, Huntington, W. Va.

John, 18-year-old son of Frank Clarke, veteran Lackey peace officer, Saturday, in an auto wreck near Hindman

Celia Lacy Howard, 78, wife of Harris Howard, well-known Morgan landowner, and mother of J.W. Howard, Prestonsburg attorney, Saturday, at her home at White Oak, Morgan County

Lizzie Bradford, 47, of Blue River, Saturday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital.

August 28, 1941

J. D. Hatfield, 55, well-known Wheelwright merchant, Tuesday, at the Stumbo Hospital, Lackey

Anna Virginia Cooley, 57, last Friday, and on the following day her 72-year-old brother, James Slone

Thurose Zanzonico, 9, of Wayland, a victim Tuesday, of measles

Barbara Ann Nelson, 6, Sunday, at the Dwale home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson

Lyda Winger Grantman, 40, sister of Mrs. Arthur Blackburn, Friday, in an auto accident, at Springfield, Ohio.

August 21, 1941

Harry Privett, 72, of Lancer, August 8, at Lexington

Luther Hays, 56, of Wayland, Monday, at Lackey

Milton Slone, 38, Monday, at his home at Dema

Mary Ellen Tackett, 59, of Estill, Saturday, at the Stumbo Hospital, Lackey

Malissa Travis Charles, 58, recently, at the home of a daughter at Emma.

August 14, 1941

James E. Fannin, 34-year-old McDowell motor brakeman, Friday, when his head came into contact with an electric wire inside the mines of the Edgemont Fuel Company, McDowell

Rosa McSurley, 76, Tuesday, at her home at Emma

Francis Harmon, 33, native of Little Paint, Saturday, while at work at Jefferys, W. Va.

Icie Moore, 19, Friday, at her home at Wayland of tuberculosis

Carl Martin, Floyd County native, Saturday, in an automobile wreck in Indiana.

August 7, 1941

Rhoda Mayo, 80, Aug. 2, at the Martin home of her daughter, W.J. Reynolds

Nancy Wallace, 81, last Wednesday, at Estill

May Moore, 33, of Orkney, last Wednesday

Victoria Adkins, 40, of Galveston, July 31, at the Beaver Valley Hospital

Casey Jones, 27, of Martin, July 31, when hit by a mine car inside a Utility Elkhorn mine

Stafford Gibson, of Tram, when hit last Saturday by a train near the Betsy Layne depot

Noretta Spurlock, 5, of Printer, July 29 at a Martin hospital, of measles.

July 31, 1941

Hampton Rice, 16-year-old Martin High School junior, and outstanding athlete, Monday, at Martin General Hospital, of typhoid

The Rev. John Joseph, 89, Monday night, at the home of a daughter at West Prestonsburg

Mrs. J. J. Mosley, of Fed, Saturday at the Martin General Hospital

Ella Akers, 23, Tuesday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital; Fanny Conley, 68, of Lackey, Saturday, at the Stumbo Memorial Hospital

Lula Belle Parker, 37, of Drift, July 24, at the Beaver Valley Hospital.

July 24, 1941

Clyde C. Carter, 49-year-old Northern taxi driver, was instantly killed, and eight other persons were injured, Saturday night, when his taxi and a truck collided

David Moran, 58, at his home at Martin, Saturday

Epp Henderson, 69, of Fed, Saturday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin

Pvt. Lawrence Porter, 27, formerly of Allen, was found dead early Friday morning, near Ft. Benjamin, Harrison, Indiana

July 17, 1941

Norvel 'Nig' Patrick, 25, of West Prestonsburg, fatally wounded at Paintsville, Sunday

Joseph Slone, 37, killed in a slatefall at Wayland, Tuesday

William Smith, 75, at his home at Martin, July 9.

July 10, 1941

Rosie Estep, 41, Wednesday at the Beaver Valley Hospital

Ira Conn, 84, Monday at Sloan; Minnie Howard Salisbury, 35, of Langley, July 3, at the Stumbo Hospital.

June 26, 1941

Sam Coburn, 20, Sunday at his home here

Tan Hale, 40, of West Prestonsburg, Tuesday at the Prestonsburg General Hospital

W. K. Elliott, 78, of Pikeville, Sunday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

June 19, 1941

The mystery-cloaked murder, Monday night, of Policeman Jerry Lee, of Garrett, was committed either in the time-renowned mountain feudist style, a shot from a mountainside, or in the modern gangster manner, by gunfire from a passing automobile, authorities held this week after an intensive probe into the case.

John J. Hughes, 57, Tuesday, at his home at Hippo

Carl Adkins, former Floyd County officer, Friday at Nevada, Mo.

Mrs. Ida Hager, 76, Saturday at Paintsville

Mrs. Virgie Stumbo Spencer, 48, of Minnie, Monday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin

Mrs. Malissa Sexton Reed, June 7, at her home on Salt Lick Creek

John Calhoun, 81, of Abbott Creek, June 5, at the Prestonsburg General Hospital.

June 12, 1941

Malinda Jane Hamilton Mellon, 93, formerly of Prestonsburg, Friday at Catlettsburg

Carl Adkins, former Floyd County officer, Friday at Nevada, Mo.

Mrs. Lee Spencer, 48, of Minnie, Monday at the Beaver Valley Hospital

John Calhoun, 81, of Abbott Creek, June 5 at Prestonsburg General hospital

Malissa Sexton Reed, 75, June 7 at her home on Salt Lick Creek.

June 5, 1941

Mrs. Wm. Arthur Beatty, former Prestonsburg resident, May 23, at her home at Nippa

Mrs. Martha Howard, 61, Sunday, at her home at Blue River.

May 29, 1941

County Attorney Forrest D. Short, 40, of a cerebral hemorrhage at Paintsville Hospital

Bill Moore, 35, of a rock and slate fall in the Elk Horn Coal Corporaton mine at Wayland

John Banks, 44, Prestonsburg carpenter; Everett H. Sowards, 49, Prestonsburg insurance man.

May 22, 1941

Joseph William Corkill, well-known coal operator at Minnie, in Memorial Hospital, Huntington

Sarah Reffitt, 67, Sunday night, at her home near Pyramid

Ruth Hale, 43, at her home at Colie; Adam England, 32, at the home of his parents at Colie.

May 15, 1941

Reba Webb, 11, of Dwale, Saturday, at a Martin, hospital

George Vance, 32, last Thursday morning, at Lancer,

W.S. Johnson, 61, of Glo, last Thursday.

May 8, 1941

James 'Blackhawk' Shepherd, 61, Wednesday at his home on the Lick Fork of Middle Creek

Mrs. Nell D. Roberts, 43, Saturday, at her home near Emma

Walter Burchett, 69, Monday at his home at 'Sang Factory,' across the river from here, of tuberculosis;

Mrs. Mousie Bell Click, 64, of Banner, Saturday at the Beaver Valley Hospital.

May 1, 1941

William Thacker, of Fed, at Camp Shelby,

Miss.; John Thomas MacIlray, 27, in a Wheelwright bathroom of accidental asphyxiation.

April 24, 1941

Harry D. Auxier, 64, East Point, when he was struck by a car on the Mayo Trail

William B. Calkill, at his home at Pikeville.

April 17, 1941

Mrs. Ella Shepherd Graves, 93, of Prestonsburg, granddaughter of early English settlers

Henderson Neeley, 51, of Goodloe, victim of TB and pneumonia

Agnes Singleton, 16, of Melvin, after childbirth

Mrs. H. B. Martin, of Martin, of tuberculosis

Mrs. Emily Ratliff Prater, 60, of Brush Creek; and Ernest Hall, 35, of Melvin, in a truck wreck.

April 10, 1941

C. C. (Lum) Davis, 84, of Prestonsburg, last Thursday at Martin

Mrs. Gracie Allen, 50, April 8 at her home at Garrett

Mrs. Nancy Akers Sellards, 44, of Banner, April 1 at Martin

Mrs. Cora Osborne, 57, Tuesday at her home at Lackey

Mrs. Elsie Hobbs, 72, Tuesday at Estill; Isaac Hurd, 53, Friday at his home at Lancer.

April 3, 1941

Jay Tackett, Pike County merchant and father of Joe P. Tackett and Mrs. Charles F. Bond, of Prestonsburg, last Tuesday

Herman Bowen, 40, of Amberstdale, W. Va., Saturday night at Martin in an auto accident

Mrs. Nancy Sellards, 45, of Banner, Tuesday at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin

Mrs. Sally Brown Butts, 51, Friday at the Beaver Valley Hospital.

March 27, 1941

Ora Davidson, 37, Drift miner, Saturday, believed to have been a train victim

Mrs. Jennie Wells Elliott, 75, Eastern Kentucky teacher for 50 years, Sunday after a long illness

Mrs. Nancy Warrens, 82, Friday at the home on Rock Fork of her daughter, Mrs. John Wes Chaffins.

March 20, 1941

Samuel Stephens, 80, Sunday at his home on Bull Creek

John S. Layne, 68, of Betsy Layne, Sunday at the Prestonsburg General Hospital.

March 13, 1941

James Caddo Smith, formerly of Prestonsburg, Monday at the Dakotah, W. Va. home of his son,

Todd Smith; Mrs. Virginia Ford, 29, of Prestonsburg, at the Methodist Hospital, Pikeville

Mrs. Henry Wright, 60, of Martin, Sunday at the Beaver Valley Hospital

Mrs. Carrie Belle Rice Davis, 32, Friday at the Prestonsburg General Hospital.

March 6, 1941

Mrs. Hamie Jarrell, 68, Thursday at her home at Warco

John Elliott Walters, 56, last Wednesday at Betsy Layne, following an auto wreck two weeks earlier

Mrs. Harry Privett, 79, of Brandy Keg, last Thursday at the home of a daughter at Lancer

Richard C. Gray, 38, of Weeksbury, last Wednesday, the result of injuries sustained in a mine accident, last October.

February 27, 1941

Dow Clarke, 45, Auxier miner, Saturday after being crushed beneath a slatefall in the mines of the North-East Coal Company at Auxier

Mrs. Martha Jane Lambert, 57, Feb. 17 at Wheelwright

Mrs. Mary Hatcher Butcher, 84, of Boldman, last Wednesday at Methodist Hospital, Pikeville

Mrs. Elizabeth Stumbo, 64, of Harold, last Thursday at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin

John Oglesby, 42, of Weeksbury, Wednesday at the Stumbo Memorial Hospital, Lackey.

February 20, 1941

James Woods Jr., 18, of Brainard, last Wednesday after being crushed beneath a load of telephone poles he was helping unload at Paintsville

Amos M. Fitzpatrick, 33, of Garrett, last Thursday at Lackey

Mrs. Rebecca Whitaker, 86, of Whitaker

February 13, 1941

Mrs. Bess DeLong, 41, Friday at Edgar

William Thomas Loar, 74, formerly of Betsy Layne at his home in Elkhorn City last Wednesday

Mrs. Pricy Newsome, 55, at Teaberry, Friday

Mrs. Martha Ann Vanderpool, 70, at Garrett, Wednesday.

February 6, 1941

Ollie B. Hall, 40, was burned to death here last Thursday morning.

Jim Hall, 46, of Drift,

Martin Baldridge, 92, of Little Paint Creek

Myrtle Marie Crum, 15 months old, of Cracker

Mrs. J.P. Comstock, 78, of Emma

Mrs. Zoula Howard, 59, of Betsy Layne

Cecil Ousley, 29, of Risner; Mrs. Sylvia Perkins, 80, of Tram.

January 30, 1941

Fanny Mayo, 63, Wednesday at her home at Hite

Kate Stephens Spradlin, Sunday at her home on Abbott Creek

John Nelson Kelly, 56, Monday at Martin

Ezra Akers, 45, formerly of Printer, January 20 in Lakeland, Florida.

January 23, 1941

Deputy Sheriff Fred E. Damron, former Floyd County magistrate, was shot and killed in a Martin restaurant Monday morning

Minnie Adkins Sturgill, 50, last Wednesday at Harold

Rose Ranier Stephens, 23, Tuesday at the Paintsville Hospital

Mrs. Andy Hamilton, 65, of Galveston, Jan. 11 at Esco, Pike County

H.P. Gearheart, 57, Floyd native, in Oklahoma City, Okla. last week

Sarah Caudill, sister of Sherman May, of Prestonsburg, Jan. 7 at her Staffordsville home.

(January 16, 1941)

Roscoe C. Howard, 51, Monday at Veterans' Hospital, Huntington, W.Va.

Rhoda Reynolds Howell, 62, wife of Joe Howell, of Harold, last Thursday

Mary J. Hale Click, 58, wife of James H. Click, Jan. 11 at her home at Lancer

Pete Slavens, 66, Tuesday at his home at Garrett

Alex Thomas, 71, Dec. 30 at Mossy Bottom

John Williams, 64, Tuesday at Boldman

Mrs. H.C. Kent, 36, native of Floyd County, Sunday of this week, at Island Creek, Pike County

January 9, 1941

Roscoe Castle, 52, of Wayland

Ester Lee Allen Martin, 40, of Allen

M Hattie Harmon, 66, of Sugarloaf

George Tuttle, 64, of Minnie

Roseanna Hamilton Hall, of Amba

Duran Hall, 58, formerly of Floyd County.

1942 Deaths reported in Floyd County Times

September 3, 1942

Mrs. Amanda Louise Howard Patrick, 81, wife of Ex-Circuit Judge A. T. Patrick, Sunday, at her home here;

Thomas Patton, 54, Martin native, who in 1908 helped build the fortress of Corregidor, August 24, at a Cleveland hospital

Joe DeMurry, of Wayland, Monday, at a Rochester, Minnesota hospital

Rell Daniels, 39, former Floyd man, Sunday, at Franklin Furnace Ohio.

August 13, 1942

William H. Herald, 56, of West Prestonsburg, August 10;

Fannie Florence, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Harris, August 6, at a Huntington hospital

Napoleon Jacobs, 42, at Lackey, of injuries suffered in a slatefall

Mrs. Maggie Bentley, 63, at her Dwale home, August 5.

August 6, 1942

Mrs. Willard Stephens, 34, Sunday, at her home on Middle Creek;

Mrs. Theodore Slone, 35, formerly of Garrett, Friday, at Niagra Falls, New York.

July 30, 1942

Mrs. Willie Johnson, 62, of Banner, Friday, at Allen;

Ira Conn, about 30, of Arkansas Creek, Tuesday night, by electrocution in a truck mine at Hunter

W. H. Lynch, 75, Martin merchant, July 22, at his home near Martin

Mrs. Russell Howard, 63, Sunday, at Betsy Layne

Mrs. Shirley Burton, 45, of Auxier, at Lexington, Saturday; Isaac Lee Layne, 62, July 22, at his home at Tram.

July 23, 1942

Mrs. 'Fats' Lamar, Wheelwright, was killed Tuesday night by a revolver shot.

Reed Henson, 18, of Ligon, by drowning, here, Monday afternoon

Mrs. Martha Mabel Harmon Knott, 46, native of this county, at Logan, W.Va., last Wednesday.

July 16, 1942

Mrs. Edith George Ward, 86, Wednesday, of last week at West Prestonsburg;

C. C. Rucker, father of Mrs. James Roark, of Prestonsburg, at Van Lear, last Wednesday

Sidney Allen, 26, Saturday, at Martin; Jesse S. Hatfield, 62, of Bull Creek, Saturday, at a Paintsville hospital;

Mrs. Fannie E. Mitchell, of Prestonsburg, Sunday, at a Grayson hospital.

June 25, 1942

Mrs. Mabel Case, 24, of McDowell, Tuesday, at a Martin hospital;

Oscar Evans, 48, of a heart attack, Friday, when stricken at the Northeast Coal Company mine entrance at Auxier

Argie Tucker, brother of Mrs. S.R. Auxier, of Prestonsburg, in Oklahoma

Lee Stewart, 64, of Melvin, Saturday, on Shelby Creek, Pike County.

June 18, 1942

Opal Mosely, 16, of McDowell, died Sunday, at a Martin hospital of a shotgun wound...

Joe Stumbo, McDowell farmer, and former teacher, was killed, Sunday morning, when hit by a train at McDowell. He was a brother of Magistrate Henry Stumbo...

Vernon Castle, 57, former Floyd peace officer, was killed, Friday midnight, by a slatefall in a Letcher county coal mine..

Miss Jo Ann Allen, 31, here, Saturday morning

Mrs. Osa Osborne Herald, 47, Sunday, at Dwale

Mrs. Ernest Langley, 63, native of West Prestonsburg, June 9, at Valley Stream; Long Island, New York

James Thompson, 3, Monday, at Laynesville

Robert Newsome, 39, of Teaberry, Wednesday, at Pikeville

Margaret Ruth Scarborough, 16, of Weeksbury, Monday, at a Martin hospital

Mrs. Machala Frasure, 68, Saturday, at Hippo; Jeff Skeans, 65, Saturday, at Cliff.

June 11, 1942

Jeff Osborne, 42, was killed Sunday, near Buckingham, by a train.

Mrs. Hattie Alley Moore, 44, of Water Gap, Friday

Frank Gearheart, 48, of Hueysville

Virgil Crum, 13, of Arkansas Creek, of tetanus.

June 4, 1942

Dr. E. N. Burke, 43, Bonanza native, Tuesday, at Lockwood, Boyd County

Alvin Napier, 51, last Thursday, at West Garrett

Mrs. Mary Robinson, 87, of Dock, Friday, at a Martin hospital

Clyde Endicott, 32, Monday, at German

James Clifton, 63, Wednesday, at his home here

Oscar Cole, about 50, Friday, at Betsy Layne

Mrs. Robert Ferguson, of Wayland, at a Pikeville hospital, Sunday.

May 28,1942

Bud Reynolds, 28, of Martin, officially reported as missing after action on Bataan...

Luther James, 24, of Betsy Layne, officially reported as missing after action on Bataan...

Wesley Thompson, 80, of Edgar, at the Prestonsburg Hospital, Tuesday

Billie Martin Jr., 16, of Allen, of a bullet wound, at a Martin hospital, Saturday

T. J. Puckett, 87, Tuesday, at his home at Myrtle

James Monroe Hughes, 26, last Thursday at Lackey

Herbert Griffith, 37, last Thursday, at his home on Little Paint.

April 30, 1942

Andrew Hunt, 28, at Ivel, of tuberculosis,

James Lee Goodman, 10, at his parents' home at Martin, of a lung abscess.

April 16, 1942

Lieut. Com. David A. Hurt, 38, commander of the U. S. submarine Perch, is missing.

Henry Harris, 61, at his home at West Prestonsburg

Mrs. Lily Branham Harris, 58, native of this county, Saturday, at Lucasville, O.

Mrs. John Amburgy, 84, Monday, at her home at Maytown

Mrs. Hala May Prater, 33, of Hueysville, Wednesday

Joe Thompson, formerly of Wayland, Wednesday, at a Lexington hospital

Imogene Coyer, 4, Wednesday, at a Martin hospital.

April 2, 1942

Mrs. Emma Prater Goble, 51, Monday, at her home here

Mrs. Susanna Cartmell, 91, Tuesday, at Drift

Pvt. Marion Hall, 20, last week at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.

March 26, 1942

Ollie James Sturgill, lost on the Houston, U.S. destroyer, sunk in the recent Pacific naval engagement between United Nations and Japanese forces, of Harold, relatives in this county have been notified...

Mrs. Verlie Maddy Hunter, 34, of Martin, last Thursday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital

Robert 'Nob' Campbell, 72, of Brandy Keg, Monday, near his home

Mrs. Serilda Fletcher Whitaker, 89, Wednesday, at her home at Estill

Thomas Reffitt, 73, of Dock, Sunday, at the home of a daughter, at West Prestonsburg

Rosanna Bailey, 61, of Hippo, March 15

Mrs. Alwilda Layne Darby, 82, of Tram, last Wednesday, at Ashland.

March 19, 1942

Carlie Ward, 32-year-old Wayland miner, died beneath a slatefall in the mines of the Elk Horn Coal Corporation, Wednesday morning.

Rev. D. M. Allen, 72, for 51 years a minister of the Church of Christ, and onetime Superintendent of Floyd County Schools, Tuesday, at his home on Salt Lick, near Hueysville

Mrs. Charlie Reynolds, 53, of Ligon, last Saturday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin

Mrs. Ed Slone, 30, of Alphoretta, Saturday, at the Martin General Hospital

Ang Collins, 28, Friday, at his home at Martin

Mac Newsome, 24, of Buckingham, Saturday, at the home of his parents

Mrs. Rhea LaGrange Flanery, 47, Monday, at the Martin General Hospital

Mrs. Nancy E. Howard, 87, of Garrett, Wednesday, at the Paintsville hospital.

March 12, 1942

Mrs. Will Rowe, 60, Saturday, at her home at Myrtle

Lewis Merritt, 89, formerly of Prestonsburg, recently in Searcy, Arkansas

Mrs. Mary Adams Stratton, 77, Friday, at her home at Ivel.

March 5, 1942

Frank Ellis, 62, at his home here, Friday

Sam Jarrell, 78, Feb. 26, at his home at Emma

Joel Martin, 63, of Drift, Tuesday, of a heart seizure at a Martin hospital

Mrs. Susan V. Laukon, 85, of Catlettsburg, Sunday

Mrs. George Owsley, of Garrett, Thursday, at a Martin hospital

Nannie Tackett Damron, 87, Saturday, at the Langley home of her son, Abel Tackett.

March 5, 1942

Bee Castle, 32, Saturday, at Stumbo Memorial Hospital, five hours after being crushed beneath a two-ton rock in a country coal bank near his home at Salt Lick

Mrs. George Owsley, of Garrett, last Thursday, at the Martin General Hospital

Mrs. Lucy McNeer, 56, of East Point, Wednesday, at the Paintsville Clinic

Joel Martin, 63, of Drift, Tuesday, at the Martin General Hospital

Sam Jarrell, 78, Feb. 26, at his home at Emma; Frank A. Ellis, 62, Friday, at his home here.

February 26, 1942

Charles Baldridge, 68, Friday, at his home on Little Paint

Dr. Carl L. Prichard, 71, veteran eastern Kentucky physician, Saturday, at his home at Harold

Thomas Hall, 76, last Thursday, at his home at Myrtle

Edith Derossett, 19, of Dwale, Monday, at Martin General Hospital, as the result of injuries suffered in an auto wreck, Feb. 13

Flora Agnes Harris, 42, native of Cow Creek, Sunday, at the Paintsville Hospital

J.D. Collins, 24, of Wayland, last Wednesday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital

Beatrice Boyd, 33, Sunday, at Dana; Whitt Chaffins, 32, Saturday, at his home at West Garrett.

February 19, 1942

'Aunt Viney' Sizemore Collinsworth, 77, Saturday, at the home of a son here

James Hammond, 73, Tuesday, at home on Bull Creek; Raymond Hagans, 21, Saturday, at home at Maytown.

February 12, 1942

James B. Jones, 87, Thursday, at his home here

Windon A. (Sand Rock) Harris, 42-year-old Drift miner, last Thursday, of skull injuries suffered after being assaulted and struck by a cue stick

J. C. Newberry, 78, formerly of Martin, Sunday, at Kenova, W. Va.

Robert Gibson, 74, native of Floyd county, Feb. 4 in Pike county

Mrs. Otta Tackett, 21, of Drift, Wednesday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin

Mrs. Helen Salyers Minix, 73, formerly of West Prestonsburg, Jan. 23, at Greenup.

February 5, 1942

John B. Stephens, 66, Monday, at his home at Allen

Pvt. Russell Robinson, of the U.S. Army, last Thursday, in Trinidad

George Frederick Gore, 32, Friday, at Estill

Mrs. Poppie Shepherd, 74, Saturday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin.

January 29, 1942

Ray 'Fuzzy' Lewis, 20-year-old Weeksbury miner was fatally wounded, Saturday night, as a tragic climax to a party at the home of a neighbor.

Amos F. Conley, 68, last Wednesday at his home at Tram

Henry Baldridge, 76, January 20, at his home at Bonanza

Mrs. Sophia Nesbitt Brown, 69, Sunday, at her home here

Mrs. Mary Ann Hicks, 47, Sunday, at her home on Brush Creek

Marion B. Wellman, 66, formerly of Garrett, January 18, at South Bend, Ind.

Samuel Robinson, 69, January 17, at his home at East Point.

January 22, 1942

George Music, 67, of the Auxier Road, Monday, in a car wreck near Mesa, Arizona

Lee Leslie, 77, Wednesday, at his home at Emma

Carrie Davidson, 14, Wednesday, at Stumbo Memorial Hospital

Mrs. Polly Combs, 56, of Bypro, last Thursday, at Martin.

January 15, 1942

Charles Oppenheimer, 76, former merchant here, Monday at the Prestonsburg General Hospital

Curtis Newsome, 21, of McDowell, Sunday at a Martin hospital of an accidental gunshot wound

Grayden (Hob) Allen, 36, victim last Wednesday of a slatefall in a mine of the Sampson Elkhorn Coal Co. at Drift;

Sylvan Reitz, 56, last Thursday at his home at Drift of a heart attack

Mrs. Katherine Lykens, 85, Saturday at her home at Hunter

Wilburn Hale, 20, of Gunlock, Magoffin County, last Wednesday at Stumbo Memorial Hospital, Lackey

Gilbert Martin, 78, of Mousie, Knott County, Monday at the Lackey Hospital

Mrs. Draxie Stafford, 47, Saturday at Betsy Layne.

January 10, 1942

John Johnson, 54, formerly of Melvin, last week in a fall over a 150-foot cliff while hunting near his home in an auto wreck near Monroe, Michigan

Major Allen Lee, 75, former Prestonsburg resident, last Thursday in Mansfield, Ohio

Rev. Nero Whitaker, 79, Saturday at his home near Brainard

Ransom Bryant, 62, Jan. 4 at his home at

1952 Deaths reported in Floyd County Times

September 4, 1952

John B. Risner, 67, former Floyd man, Saturday, as the auto in which he was speeding to the scene of a fire was wrecked;

Edmund A. Smith, 63, Floyd mining engineer, Saturday, at his home here

Thomas P. Carlton, 63, August 17, as he was being taken from this county to a Huntington hospital

Homer Wright, 34, of Drift, August 28, at a Huntington hospital

Effie Risner, 42, of Estill, August 30, at a Lexington hospital

Rev. James A. Garfield Hall, 69, of Honaker, August 29, at a Martin hospital

Tom Turner, 72, September 1, at Wayland.

August 14, 1952

Oscar Pitts, 62, formerly of Middle Creek, Tuesday, at his farm near Kensington, Ohio;

Mrs. Annie McKenzie, 48, of West Prestonsburg, August 6, at the hospital here

Sarah Bentley, 68, of Topmost, Tuesday, at a Martin hospital

Will Webb, 59, of Langley, Tuesday, at a Martin hospital.

August 7, 1952

Mrs. Rufus Crisp, 73, at Allen, last Thursday;

Mrs. Draxie Reynolds Goble, 32, at Ligon, Friday

John Lee Sanders, 55, of Betsy Layne, Monday at a Paintsville hospital

Patty Lou, 1, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eathel Hicks, of Wayland, July 30, at a Lackey hospital.

July 31, 1952

Tilden Martin, 74, of Dema, Sunday, at a Paintsville hospital;

Samuel T. Bingham Jr., 66, last Thursday, at his home on Bull Creek

Sid Frasure, 36, of Langley, Sunday, at a Martin hospital

Oscar Lee Vanderpool, 34, McDowell merchant, Wednesday, at a Martin hospital.

July 24, 1952

James R. Hurt, Prestonsburg business leader, Tuesday, near West Liberty, of a heart attack;

Ward Beech Bailey, 49, of Garrett, Tuesday, of injuries suffered when hit by a train

Arnold Conn, 44, of Arkansas Creek, July 18, at a Martin hospital

James V. Rickman, 24, of Tram, Monday, killed by a train

Russell G. Rice, 50, Garrett, Wednesday, at Martin

Mrs. Newt Stephens, 77, of Martin, Tuesday, at the Prestonsburg General Hospital

Mrs. Liza Mayo, 52, Floyd native, Saturday, at Pinsonfork, Pike County

Mrs. Ollie Roop, formerly of Tram, last week in a Williamson, W.Va. hospital.

July 17, 1952

Samuel G. Ousley, 91, former Floyd Tax Commissioner, Saturday, at his home at Dock

Mrs. Mollie Adams Clay, 63, Friday, at her home in West Prestonsburg

Mrs. Hester Scalf Hunter, 69, at Pikeville, July 10

Mrs. Clara Jones Hall, 19, Friday, at her home at Beaver.

June 26, 1952

A coroner's jury has held that Worley Hobert Evans, of Melvin, whose body was found early Wednesday in Abner Fork of Left Beaver Creek, was a victim of drowning

Lucy Turner Jones, 71, June 18, at McDowell

William H. Stanley, 29, native of Cliff, June 19, at Riverview, Kentucky

John Hall, 75, Friday, at Honaker.

June 19, 1952

Clyde Hall, 30, died last Thursday night at the home of his father at East McDowell, three hours after arrival there from Cleveland, Ohio.

Delcie Childers, 49, of Garrett, at Pikeville, June 13

Diana K. Tackett, one-year-old, June 14, at Hi Hat.

June 12, 1952

Twelve-year-old Bobby Greer, of Burdine, drowned in Dewey Lake last Thursday afternoon.

Emory Boyd Chase, 76, at Wayland

Joe Vanderpool, 78, at McDowell

Walter Tackett, 14 months, of Beaver

Dr. Harvey G. Hazelrigg, 63, Paintsville dentist.

June 5, 1952

Ellis Morrison, 50, of Bypro, May 27, of mine injuries

Mary Wireman Spradlin, 85, last Thursday, at Auxier

Mrs. Dicie Meade Bentley, 77, of Glo, Monday, at a Williamson hospital

Jerry Allen, 81, Wednesday, at Cliff.

May 29, 1952

Thomas Harris, 74, of Emma, was instantly killed, Sunday morning, when hit by an auto near his home.

George Page, 77, May 23, at Wayland

Bill Stover, of Harold, May 26'a week after the death of his wife

Flora Howell Smith, 60, Floyd native, at Big Shoals, Pike County, last Wednesday.

May 1, 1952

John Warren, 71, of Tram, at the Prestonsburg General Hospital, last Tuesday

Mrs. Alice Smith Nichols, 84, of Lancer, April 29, at her home.

April 19, 1952

Wallace Gray Thornsbury, 75, last Thursday, at Sloan

T-Sgt. Harry Huff, formerly of Hueysville, March 1 on Okinawa

Rev. Silas Bayes, former Floyd Countian, April 8, at Adrian, Michigan

Mrs. Julian Carroll, 87, at Martin, April 14

Ben H. Cox, 62, owner of the Valley Motor Company here, Tuesday, in a Paintsville hospital

Evan Case, 49, of Jump, April 14, in a Lexington hospital

Former County Clerk Ivory A. Smiley, today (Thursday), at a Martin hospital

Cordelia M. Williamson, 77, of Coal Run, April 14, at a Martin hospital.

April 3, 1952

Two veterans of Korea met instant death, shortly before midnight, Friday, at Alger, Ohio, as their auto and an eastbound Erie passenger train met at a rail crossing. They are Smith Junior Hicks, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Hicks, of Goodloe, and Cpl. Gailen Howard, 22, native of Knott County.

Seven-year-old Robert Perry Friend was struck and almost instantly killed by a truck on the Mayo Trail here, early Monday morning. He was a son of Mrs. Violet Friend Hyden and the late Edward C. Friend.

Mrs. Frank Stumbo, 53, formerly of McDowell, Friday in Waverly, Ohio

Stanley Brown, 72, of Drift, March 30, at a Martin hospital

Maudie Hall Mitchell, 58, of Grethel, Thursday, March 26.

March 27, 1952

William Reed, 74, janitor at the Auxier School, March 25 at Auxier

Jerry Gayheart, 67, of Orkney, March 21; Diane Flanery, 51, March 20, at her home at Martin

W. H. Irvin, of Paintsville, father of Mrs. James Carter of Prestonsburg, Wednesday at St. Petersburg, Fla.

Charley Edward Gwynn, 68, Friday, at Wheelwright

Mrs. Fanny May, 59, of Allen, Tuesday, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital, Martin

Okley Williams, 39, of Printer, Friday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital, Martin

Mrs. Carlena Hughes, 57, Tuesday, at her home at Garrett

Mrs. Alice Gearheart Turner, 85, of Prestonsburg, last Thursday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital

Mrs. Mae Combs Campbell, 45, Sunday, at her home here.

March 20, 1952

Elizabeth Woods Setser, 75, of Endicott, March 3, at the home of a daughter

Sarah Gillespie, 76, of Grethel, March 14, at home

Lilly May Reffett, 25, of Alphoretta, March 15, at the Prestonsburg General Hospital

John Salyers, 79, March 13, at his home at Wayland

George F. Neel, 72, Prestonsburg native, Saturday, at Berea.

March 13, 1952

Russell Smith, 56, Glo miner, following a mining accident last week in which his leg was mangled by a coal-cutting machine

Martha Newsome Tackett, 40, Monday, at her home at Dony

Joe Cole, janitor at Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates (Koppers), Sunday afternoon.

March 6, 1952

Eighteen hours after the death in an Ashland hospital, yesterday (Wednesday), of the small daughter of Glenn Harold Hall, he and five family members were found unconscious in the home of his father, John Hall, at Wayland. They were overcome by fumes from a gas floor furnace..

Lee Yates, 73, March 3, at his home at Bonanza

Ruth Hicks Goble, 30, Feb. 29, at her home at Langley

Samuel Ratliff, 47, formerly of the Langley area, Feb. 29, at Sidney, Ohio

Gary Porter Brown, infant, March 2, at Dwale.

February 28, 1952

Hi Prater, 93, Wednesday, at his home at Blue River

Mary Ellen Flanary Robinson, 82, Feb. 20, at her home at Martin

Mrs. Anna Hubbard Potter, 50, formerly of Prestonsburg, last Wednesday, at Praise, Kentucky.

February 21, 1952

Laura Minnie Hatfield, 81, last Thursday, at her home at East Point

Wesley Hale, 75, Sunday, at his home at Hueysville

Adam Prater, of Pyramid, Monday, at Prestonsburg General Hospital

Malinda Frances Laferty, 58, Thursday, at her home at Allen

James Bentley, 65, native of Brush Creek, Friday, at Logan, Ohio.

February 14, 1952

E. G. Curnutte, 62, Tuesday, at his home at Auxier

Rosa Slone Waddell, 79, February 6, at her home at Eastern

Mrs. Alice Lynch Slone, 68, Feb. 5, at the Methodist Hospital, Pikeville

Johnny Robinson, 72, of Martin, Feb. 13, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital, Martin

Will Johnson, 56, Feb. 12, at his home at Bevinsville.

February 7, 1952

Emmitt Hamilton, Sr., 75, last week at his home at Teaberry

Albert Ratliff, 64, Jan. 24, at his home at Lancer

Roy Earl Williams, 17, Feb. 3

Amos 'Sonny' Napier, 92, of Abbott Creek, Feb. 6, at the Prestonsburg General Hospital

Manuel Adkins, 69, Tuesday, at his home at Allen

James Edgle Campbell, 24, of Risner, last Thursday, at a Huntington, W. Va. hospital.

January 31, 1952

Mrs. Frances Howell Tackett, 26, of Hi Hat, Saturday, at the Beaver Valley Hospital,

Martin; Pete Dimitri, 60, retired Wheelwright miner and a native of Bulgaria, last Thursday, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital, Martin

Mrs. Roberta Thornsbury, of Wayland, Friday, at the home of her father at Bypro.

January 24, 1952

Mrs. Mertie S. Hicks, 54, Floyd County native, Sunday, during funeral services for her sister-in-law at Mousie;

Mrs. Margaret Hicks Tackett, 73, at her home at Dony

Mrs. Polkie Halbert Barnett, 74, last Thursday, at home on Buck's Branch

Fred Gearheart, 32, Sunday, at his home at Price

George Stanford, 71, Monday, at his home at Wheelwright

Thomas A. Spradlin, 75, Friday, at home at Bonanza.

January 17, 1952

James A. Goble, 64, native of Prestonsburg, at his home in Matewan, W. Va., Saturday

Mrs. Millie F. Watkins, 67, January 11, at her home on the Left Fork of Abbott Creek

Mrs. Molly Belcher, 62, at the home here of her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Smith, Tuesday

Willie Walter Whitaker, 56, of East Point, Saturday, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Eva Collins, of Little Paint

Rev. A.D. Blackburn, of Yeager, Saturday, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Tackett, at Pikeville;

Mrs. Martha Jane Hamilton, 61, of Beaver, January 13, at a hospital here

Shade Combs, 45, native of Knott County, Saturday, in Clarksville, Ind.

Kennard Clark, 24, of Maysville, formerly of this county, Sunday, in an auto accident at Maysville

Mitch T. Scalf, former Floyd County resident, January 8, at his home in Pikeville

J. A. Straughan, 78, former superintendent of the Elkhorn Piney Coal Co. at Weeksbury, last Thursday, in Montgomery, W. Va.

Gabe Crum, 47, Tuesday, at the home of his parents, Wilce and Liza Lewis Crum, of West Prestonsburg.