Lee County AlArchives Obituaries.....Campbell, J. E. August 31, 1936
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936

J.E. CAMPBELL IS DEAD FROM BURNS OF ELECTRIC LIGHT

Anniston, Ala., Aug. 31

J.E. Campbell, employee of the Alabama Power Company, who formerly was 
connected with the local office the utility, died at 5 o'clock this 
morning in the Opelika hospital from burns received when he was enveloped by 
an electric arc while checking a repair job at an Opelika textile plant.

Mr. Campbell, who was Southern Division sub-station foreman with 
headquarters in Montgomery, was fatally burned Sunday afternoon when the 
switch was thrown to test a motor repair job. Another power company employee 
was slightly burned, it was reported.

The body was brought here by Usrey this afternoon and will be at the home of 
Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Reaves at 1504 Noble Street. Mr. Campbell was 
employed in Anniston for a number of years and moved to Montgomery about 10 
years ago when he received a promotion.

Surviving are his wife Mrs. Birdie Pearce Campbell, a son James and a 
daughter Annie Nell; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.H. Campbell of Heflin; 
three brothers, Martin of Heflin, Brock of Golden Springs and Henry of 
Mississippi, and a sister Mrs. Harvey Murray of Heflin.


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