Haralson-Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Blanton, William April 1935
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama 

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, MAY 2, 1935

BLANTON MEETS TRAGIC DEATH LAST MONDAY

William Blanton, age 42, of Atlanta was almost instantly killed in Bremen, 
Ga., at about 11 a.m. last Monday when it was said an automobile and a 
freight train were in collision near the depot. According to meager 
information it seems that the freight was switching and had just cleared a 
crossing when Blanton, who was a brakeman, swung off a car into the path of 
an automobile, said to have been driven by a young man of the Georgia town. 
The unfortunate man was said to have been caught between the automobile and 
a box car and his body was badly crushed.

The deceased, a son of Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Blanton of Heflin, is survived by 
his widow, and two daughters by a former marriage; his parents and other 
relatives. Blanton had been a faithful employee of the Southern Railway for 
a number of years. Following the fatal accident, the victim was removed to 
an Atlanta funeral home and the body prepared for burial and Wednesday was 
brought to Heflin, his boyhood home, for funeral services and burial in the 
city cemetery.


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