JOE JAYNE
  
JAYNE RITES HELD SUNDAY
  
Large Crowds Attend
Funeral of Gun Victim
  
Funeral services were held Sunday for Joe Jayne at Old Union Church
at Staffordsville.  One of the largest crowds ever seen at a funeral
was present for the funeral and burial.  Services were in charge of
Rev. F. F. Rigsby, Rev. Winfrey Meek and other ministers of the
United Baptist Church.
  
Jayne was fatally shot at Paintsville Saturday, April 4, 1936, by
Harry Adams, ex-Sheriff of Johnson County, and died at the Golden
Rule Hospital on Saturday, April 11, one week after the shooting.
Before his death Jayne professed faith in the Christian religion and
was converted. He told members of the family he did not fear death
and was ready to go.
    
Mr. Jayne is survived by his father and mother, several brothers and
sisters, a wife and a number of children.
  
Funeral arrangements were in charge of the Mountain Furniture
Company.
  
Burial was made in the family cemetery at Staffordsville.
    
Paintsville Herald
Thursday
April 16, 1936
  

  h/o Mary Jane (Cantrell) Jayne, s/o Johnny W. & Cora
 Ellen (Blanton) Jayne   

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