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Pearl Lefevers
 
 

From the news story/obit from the 9/30/1935 Pineville paper

MAN IS KILLED BY L.&N. TRAIN

     Pearl LeFevers, 28, Molus, Ky., who was killed Friday night by being run over by a freight train was buried yesterday in the Pineville cemetery. Funeral services were conducted at the home of the deceased at Molus. Details of the accident which took the life of young LeFevers were not available. Nineteen cars passed over his body and mangled it almost beyond recognition
 

News story/obit from the Harlan Daily Enterprise 9/30/1935

Molus Youth is Killed on Track

Pearl Lefevers Struck by L.& N. Train; Funeral Today

     Pearl Lefevers, 19, son of Mrs. Emily Collette and Mit Lefevers, was killed near Molus Friday night at 10:30 o'clock on a Louisville & Nashville Railroad siding, when struck by a train.
     He is a nephew of Mrs. Morris Saylor, or Harlan.
     Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 1:00 o'clock from the Molus church, with the Rev. Henry Hubbard officiating. Burial will be made in the Pineville cemetery.
    He is survived by four brothers; Elmer, Lawrence, George and Morris.
    He was the employee of the Harlan Wallins Coal Corp.