MADISON COUNTY, NC - OBITUARY - W. Oscar Rector, 22 Jan 1935
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Asheville Citizens
Newspaper date 1-24-1935
Microfilm page 224

W. O. Rector Instantly Killed
Prominent Citizen of Rector Settlement Loses Life In Automobile Wreck.

Mr. W. Oscar Rector, 50, prominent farmer of the Rector's Chapel section,
three miles south of Marshall was instantly killed and Sam Lunsford, a
tenant on a farm owned by Rector, was painfully injured when the small
roadster, in which they were riding in route to Marshall, went over an
embankment on Highway No. 20 Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock.  The accident
occurred 13 miles west of Marshall between Marshall and Hot Springs,
Lunsford said that Rector, who was driving, lost control of the car as it
was rounding a curve on the highway and the automobile plunged off the road
and down the embankment, traveling for nearly[?]00 feet before it stopped.
The car turned over several times.  Both Rector and Lunsford were thrown
from the car at a point about 200 feet below the highway.  Rector was killed
when he was thrown from the car.  Lunsford suffered bruises and cuts on the
head and in the side.  His condition is not believed to be serious.
Lunsford received treatment in Marshall and then returned to his home.
Rector's body was brought to the Rector Funeral home in Marshall.
Surviving Mr. Rector are his widow, Mrs. Ella Rector; three sons, Everett,
of Ohio; Coleman, of Enka; and Joe, at home; and two daughters, Mrs. Lloyd
Martin, of Detroit, and Miss Winifred Rector, at home.
Funeral services, conducted by the Rev. J. A. Martin, were set for 2 o'clock
Thursday afternoon at Oak Ridge church, interment to follow at the church
cemetery.


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