2 Oct 1877, Morganton, NC - 9 Nov 1950, of a heart attack, Piedmont Mem. Hosp, Greensboro, NC
*buried: 10 Nov 1950, Forest Hill Cem., Morganton
* an employee of the Railway Mail Service from 1900 to Sept. 1939 in the chief clerk's office in Greensboro . He survived three catastrophic train wrecks without injury : first, the 1904 head-on collision of the Knoxville with the Asheville bound train, that killed 60 people; a second head-on collision; third, he was in a mail car when the locomotive plunged off a washed-out bridge.
* was a charter member of the First Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina
I remember seeing a framed badly-yellowed photograph from a newspaper on my grandfather, Fred Turner Jr's bedroom wall of a very nasty train wreck. It was, in fact, the 1904 collision mentioned below, one of the worst in American railroad history for sheer destruction and loss of life.
In his obituary, Fred Sr's harrowing account of the wreck is as follows:
* was a charter member of the First Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina
I remember seeing a framed badly-yellowed photograph from a newspaper on my grandfather, Fred Turner Jr's bedroom wall of a very nasty train wreck. It was, in fact, the 1904 collision mentioned below, one of the worst in American railroad history for sheer destruction and loss of life.
In his obituary, Fred Sr's harrowing account of the wreck is as follows:
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