Randolph County AlArchives Obituaries.....Nelson, Davis July 13, 1963
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Roanoke Leader
Thirty-five-year-old Davis Nelson of Roanoke Rt. 3 was fatally injured in a 
truck accident in Roanoke at 4:30 Saturday morning, July 13. The accident 
occurred on Stone Ave. in Lowell, where Mr. Nelson was making milk deliveries 
for Dairyland Farms. So far as Roanoke police know, there were no witnesses to 
the accident. The evidence indicates that Mr. Nelson drove the truck to the top 
of a hill and stopped, or attempted to stop, to make a delivery. Apparently, a 
brake failure caused he truck to roll backward down the very steep hill for 
about 75 yards. It left the road and rolled up a small incline before striking a 
utility pole, which it snapped. It appeared to investigating officers that when 
the truck struck the pole, Mr. Nelson was thrown out, only to be crushed to 
death when the truck overturned on him. His death appeared to have been 
instantaneous. Damage to the truck was surprisingly slight. According to 
officers, this same dairy truck was involved in another fatal accident near 
Roanoke several months ago. Horace Vinson died in a local hospital a few days 
after the truck left the road with him in an early morning accident. Mr. Nelson 
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Myrl Nelson, and 2 sons, Jerry and Kenneth Nelson, 
of Roanoke Rt. 3; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lon Nelson of Newell Rt. 1; 6 
brothers, Carl and Jesse Nelson of Newell Rt. 1, Hermit Nelson of Wedowee, J. D. 
Nelson of Rock Mills, and Elmore and Lonnie Ray Nelson of LaGrange; 4 sisters, 
Mrs. Howard McCain of Wedowee, Mrs. Annie Mae Kerr of Huntsville, Mrs. Marvis 
McCain of Wedowee Rt. 1, and Mrs. Betty Jane Stewart of Bowdon. Funeral services 
for Mr. Nelson were conducted at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Levins 
Baptist Church by Rev. A. F. Pope, Rev. J. T. Dykes, and Rev. Wallace Bell Jr. 
Burial was in the church cemetery.

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