Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Charlie Mell Lunsford June 13 1927
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The Covington News, June 17, 1927

DEATH OF CHARLIE MELL LUNSFORD
  Monday morning, June 13, the news was received in Covington of the tragic
death of Charlie Mell Lunsford, known to all the young people of Covington
as "Chunk" in a coal mine accident at Benham, Ky., in one of the big mines
of the International Havester Company.
  The accident occurred at 4 o'clock in this morning just as the night shift
was quitting work. Chunk was running one of the electric trains in the mine
and was driving a train of empty cars when an automatic switch failed to
work and he was crushed against the walls of the mine.
  Charlie Mell was only twenty-three, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
F. Lunsford, highly esteemed in Newton County but now both deceased. He
was famous as a baseball player, having played in many local clubs and in
the Cumberland Valley League of Tennessee, leagues in Texas, Louisiana 
and Arkansas and was playing at the time of his death with the International
team in Kentucky. He was greatly beloved for his splendid sportsmanship
and his genial disposition.
  He leaves six brothers, Earl of Miami, Carl of Gulfport, Miss., Horace,
Archer, Emmett and Kiser of Covington and three sisters, Mrs. H. B. Rogers,
Miss Ora and Miss Fletcher Lou, all of Covington.
  A large number of friends and relatives gathered at the Baptist Church
at 4 o'clock Thursday where the funeral services were conducted by Rev.
Walker Combs. Mrs. J. L. Callaway arranged the appropriate music and Stillwell
and Everitt were in charge of arrangements.

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