CLEVELAND COUNTY (DORSEY) 1921 Obituaries
Cleveland County Herald
May 26, 1921
CLARENCE FORE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY TRAIN
Monday morning about six o'clock the body of Clarence Fore was found under the railroad trestle just outside the incorporate limits of Kingsland. He was found by members of a freight train crew and was taken up and carried to Fordyce where he died about two hours later. Dr. March of Fordyce was hastily summonded and found him conscious when he arrived and told that about twelve o'clock he started to walk from Kingsland to his home in Rison when he was on a short trestle passenger train number four struck him.
He had spent the evening with friends in Kingsland and had left them about eleven o'clock with the intention of coming home on the train. When his parents here were notified of the accident they, with several friends rushed to Fordyce where they arrived just a short while before his death.
His body was brought here Monday at noon and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery Tuesday afternoon, Rev. A.N. Stanfield of the First Baptist Church conducting the funeral services.
Cleveland County Herald
May 26, 1921
CLARENCE FORE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY TRAIN
Monday morning about six o'clock the body of Clarence Fore was found under the railroad trestle just outside the incorporate limits of Kingsland. He was found by members of a freight train crew and was taken up and carried to Fordyce where he died about two hours later. Dr. March of Fordyce was hastily summonded and found him conscious when he arrived and told that about twelve o'clock he started to walk from Kingsland to his home in Rison when he was on a short trestle passenger train number four struck him.
He had spent the evening with friends in Kingsland and had left them about eleven o'clock with the intention of coming home on the train. When his parents here were notified of the accident they, with several friends rushed to Fordyce where they arrived just a short while before his death.
His body was brought here Monday at noon and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery Tuesday afternoon, Rev. A.N. Stanfield of the First Baptist Church conducting the funeral services.
CLEVELAND COUNTY (DORSEY) 1921 Obituaries
Cleveland County Herald
May 26, 1921
CLARENCE FORE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY TRAIN
Monday morning about six o'clock the body of Clarence Fore was found under the railroad trestle just outside the incorporate limits of Kingsland. He was found by members of a freight train crew and was taken up and carried to Fordyce where he died about two hours later. Dr. March of Fordyce was hastily summonded and found him conscious when he arrived and told that about twelve o'clock he started to walk from Kingsland to his home in Rison when he was on a short trestle passenger train number four struck him.
He had spent the evening with friends in Kingsland and had left them about eleven o'clock with the intention of coming home on the train. When his parents here were notified of the accident they, with several friends rushed to Fordyce where they arrived just a short while before his death.
His body was brought here Monday at noon and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery Tuesday afternoon, Rev. A.N. Stanfield of the First Baptist Church conducting the funeral services.
Cleveland County Herald
May 26, 1921
CLARENCE FORE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY TRAIN
Monday morning about six o'clock the body of Clarence Fore was found under the railroad trestle just outside the incorporate limits of Kingsland. He was found by members of a freight train crew and was taken up and carried to Fordyce where he died about two hours later. Dr. March of Fordyce was hastily summonded and found him conscious when he arrived and told that about twelve o'clock he started to walk from Kingsland to his home in Rison when he was on a short trestle passenger train number four struck him.
He had spent the evening with friends in Kingsland and had left them about eleven o'clock with the intention of coming home on the train. When his parents here were notified of the accident they, with several friends rushed to Fordyce where they arrived just a short while before his death.
His body was brought here Monday at noon and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery Tuesday afternoon, Rev. A.N. Stanfield of the First Baptist Church conducting the funeral services.
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