BLOUNT COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - David Ridge, 8 Oct 1909
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                             Death of David Ridge

               Knoxville Sentinel, Knoxville, TN, Oct 09, 1909

A very serious wreck occurred ten miles south of Maryville, about 4 o'clock 
Friday afternoon, when a Tennessee-North Carolina train left the track and 
plunged down an embankment, resulting in the death of one man and several 
others were more or less cut, bruised and shaken up.  The cause of the wreck 
is unknown.
                                   The Dead
DAVID H. RIDGE, aged 56, a farmer, skull fractured and chest crushed, and died 
after being removed to the Knoxville General Hospital.

                                   Injured
EMORY SELLS, internally injured.
JOHN  LAMBERT, leg cut and arm wrenched.   He is a lumberman owning a mill 
near Maryville.
LEVI BREWER, deputy United States Marshall, back and arm wrenched.
ROME CHUMLEA, bruised and shaken up.
H. C. KOPCKE, general manager of the Maryville Lumber company, bruised and 
shaken up.
     Conductor Thomas Harrison received several minor injuries about the body, 
also two brakemen were slightly injured.
The accident occurred when the train was about ten miles out of Maryville and 
was approaching that point from the direction of Bushnell when a cow was 
struck by the engine as it was near a trestle.  This collision seemed to have 
no effect until the remainder of the train had passed on to the embankment, 
when the three rear coaches containing twenty or more passengers left the 
track and plunged down the embankment, the remainder of the train staying on 
the track.  The injured were immediately placed in a boxcar and rushed to 
Maryville and given what medical aid was necessary.  Emory Sells and David 
Ridge, the two worst injured, were sent to the General Hospital at Knoxville, 
where the latter passed away soon after reaching there.  Mr. Ridge, the victim 
of the wreck, was well known in this section, being a well-to-do farmer, aged 
56 years. *
      Emory Sells, who was internally injured, was a prisoner in the hands of 
Marshall Brewer, who was slightly injured.
     Rome Chumlea, one of the injured, is well known in this city and had been 
an employee of the Caldwell and Rodgers Clothing Company, at Knoxville until a 
few weeks ago. A Sentinel reporter telephoned to his home in Maryville this 
morning and it was ascertained that he was painfully hurt but not very 
dangerously.
     This is the second accident for the road.
     About five months ago a slight accident occurred, but no one was injured.


                          Ridge, a Well Known Farmer
     David H. Ridge, the victim, died about an hour after reaching this city 
and soon after was removed to the undertaking establishment of  Thos. M. Burns 
& Co.  The remains will be taken back to Maryville Sunday morning on an early 
train, which leaves this city at 8:15 o'clock.  The deceased was 56* years of 
age and is a well known and respected farmer of that place. He is survived by 
a widow and three children.**  The interment will take place Sunday morning in 
the family cemetery, near Maryville.***

[transcriber's notes:
* David was 68 years old
** Should say survived by a widow and 10 children. 
Three daughters preceded him in death.,
Susie Ridge born /died 1866
Mary Ridge m Lincoln Fortner, d 1901
Betty Ridge m John Clark, d 1908.
David  was survived by his wife Angeline (Arwood/Carver) Ridge and children 
Cynthia Jane (Jennie) Ridge m Dave Dovers
John Ridge m Bell Stout
Thomas Ridge m 1. Lou Coppock , m 2. Barbara Johnson,  re- m 3. Lou Coppock
David Columbus Ridge m Julie Baker
Dora Ridge m Gambill Morrison
Hayes Ridge m Emma Stout
Callie Ridge m Joe Brewer
Alice L "Ten" Ridge m Hugh Stout
William Ridge m 1. Ellen Dockery,  m 2. Annie Hughes
 Laura Ridge m Jim Goodson.

*** David and Angeline are buried in Four Mile Baptist Church Cemetery, Blount 
Co., south of Maryville, TN.

David was the son of Abraham and Elizabeth  (Phebe)  (Johnston) Ridge. He was 
born Sep. 4, 1841 in Blount  Co., TN d Oct. 08, 1909 Knox Co., TN]