Fletcher L Cross
Coal Miner Killed In Slate Fall
First Accident At Pocahontas Mine In 9 Years
Fletcher L. Cross, 32-year-old miner of Oliver Springs Rt.1 and father of six children, was killed Monday in a slate fall at the Pocahontas coal mine near Devonia. Cross was operating a shuttle car at the time of the accident. Reports said Cross heard rumblings of an impending slate fall and started to run-but in the wrong direction. Officials reported that it was the first accident at the mine in the past nine years. The victim was a member of the Masons and the Order of the Eastern Star.
Funeral services were to be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Middle Creek Baptist Church near Petros. The Rev.Homer C. Hooks is to conduct the services and burial will be in the Estes Cemetery. Survivors are his wife, Clara, sons, Fletcher Leon Jr., Clarence William and Verlon Dean, of Oliver Springs, sisters, Mrs. Ruth Scholfield, Lafollette, Mrs. Geneva Cook, Rockwood, Mrs. Estelle Ward and Miss Venedean Cross, Gesuga Lake, Ohio, daughters, Audrey, Phyllis and Marie Cross, Coalfield, brothers, Clarence, Guy, Willard, J.W. all of Coalfield and Willliam Cross of Ohio. Cox at Lake City is in charge.
Fletcher Cross was born 13 August 1918, and died 12 May 1958. He was buried in Estes Cemetery, Coalfield, Tennessee. He was the son of WYLEY L CROSS and BESSIE KEATHLEY. He married CLARA RODEY.
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