BAYLESS CONLEY
  
Funeral Services
Sunday, Jan. 29 For Bayless Conley
  
Bayless Conley, 30, was killed in a rock fall in the mine of
the Victoria Mining Company at Riceville about 7:00 a.m.
Friday.
  
Two other men, Tom Conley, uncle of the victim and Ed
Sparks, received minor injuries and were hospitalized. All
three were residents of the Riceville vicinity.
  
The slate fall occured shortly after the men had entered the
mine and the accident took place about 30 feet from the
mouth of the mine opening.
  
Sparks had leased the mine from its owners and was operating
it under contract, it was learned.
  
Conley was a son of Paris and Malta Hannah Conley and he had
lived in the county his entire life.
  
He is survived by his parents, his wife, one son, Hank
Conley and two daughters, Diane and Connie.
  
Also surviving are three brothers, Carl Conley, Oil Springs,
William and Burnis, both of Riceville, four sisters, Mrs.
Myrtle Patrick, Ivyton, Mrs. Edna Perkins, Carey, O., Mrs.
Florence Caudill and Miss Merlyn Jean Conley, both of
Riceville.
  
Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m., Sunday, January 29,
at the Riceville Free Will Baptist Church by Reverend Scott
Castle, and Rev. Grant Hitchcock, Jr.
  
Songs were sung by the Toms Creek Quartet.
  
Burial was made in the Conley Cemetery at Oil Springs under
the direction of the Paintsville Funeral Home.
   
Paintsville Herald
Wednesday
02-01-1956
 
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