Worked for L&N RR as a car repairman. Was crushed between two cars.
The Parisian
August 12 1921, page 7
Former Paris Man, Killed in Memphis,
Buried Here Sunday
John Leroy Kibbons, who was the victim of a railroad accident in Memphis Friday was brought to the home of his brother, H.E. Kibbons, Jackson Street, Saturday for burial, accompanied by his wife, three daughters and two sons.
Funeral services were conducted at the residence Sunday afternoon by Rev. P.P. Pullen, interment at Spring Hill.
J.L. Kibbons, Roy to his many friends and relatives in Paris and Henry County, a car inspector for the L & N Railway, was almost instantly killed about 1:41 o'clock Friday afternoon when caught between the couplings of two freight cars at the Jackson avenue crossing, Memphis.
A. Bush Scates, L & N superintendent, said Saturday that reports he had received indicated that the train crew which bumped the two freight cars together did not know Kibboms was between the cars.
Kibbons was inspecting the heavy couplings when they closed in on him like iron claws and crushed him to death. His home was in Jonesboro, Ark.
He is survived by his wife, three sons, and three daughters all of whom reside at Jonesboro, Ark.
The Parisian
August 12 1921, page 7
Former Paris Man, Killed in Memphis,
Buried Here Sunday
John Leroy Kibbons, who was the victim of a railroad accident in Memphis Friday was brought to the home of his brother, H.E. Kibbons, Jackson Street, Saturday for burial, accompanied by his wife, three daughters and two sons.
Funeral services were conducted at the residence Sunday afternoon by Rev. P.P. Pullen, interment at Spring Hill.
J.L. Kibbons, Roy to his many friends and relatives in Paris and Henry County, a car inspector for the L & N Railway, was almost instantly killed about 1:41 o'clock Friday afternoon when caught between the couplings of two freight cars at the Jackson avenue crossing, Memphis.
A. Bush Scates, L & N superintendent, said Saturday that reports he had received indicated that the train crew which bumped the two freight cars together did not know Kibboms was between the cars.
Kibbons was inspecting the heavy couplings when they closed in on him like iron claws and crushed him to death. His home was in Jonesboro, Ark.
He is survived by his wife, three sons, and three daughters all of whom reside at Jonesboro, Ark.
Worked for L&N RR as a car repairman. Was crushed between two cars.
The Parisian
August 12 1921, page 7
Former Paris Man, Killed in Memphis,
Buried Here Sunday
John Leroy Kibbons, who was the victim of a railroad accident in Memphis Friday was brought to the home of his brother, H.E. Kibbons, Jackson Street, Saturday for burial, accompanied by his wife, three daughters and two sons.
Funeral services were conducted at the residence Sunday afternoon by Rev. P.P. Pullen, interment at Spring Hill.
J.L. Kibbons, Roy to his many friends and relatives in Paris and Henry County, a car inspector for the L & N Railway, was almost instantly killed about 1:41 o'clock Friday afternoon when caught between the couplings of two freight cars at the Jackson avenue crossing, Memphis.
A. Bush Scates, L & N superintendent, said Saturday that reports he had received indicated that the train crew which bumped the two freight cars together did not know Kibboms was between the cars.
Kibbons was inspecting the heavy couplings when they closed in on him like iron claws and crushed him to death. His home was in Jonesboro, Ark.
He is survived by his wife, three sons, and three daughters all of whom reside at Jonesboro, Ark.
The Parisian
August 12 1921, page 7
Former Paris Man, Killed in Memphis,
Buried Here Sunday
John Leroy Kibbons, who was the victim of a railroad accident in Memphis Friday was brought to the home of his brother, H.E. Kibbons, Jackson Street, Saturday for burial, accompanied by his wife, three daughters and two sons.
Funeral services were conducted at the residence Sunday afternoon by Rev. P.P. Pullen, interment at Spring Hill.
J.L. Kibbons, Roy to his many friends and relatives in Paris and Henry County, a car inspector for the L & N Railway, was almost instantly killed about 1:41 o'clock Friday afternoon when caught between the couplings of two freight cars at the Jackson avenue crossing, Memphis.
A. Bush Scates, L & N superintendent, said Saturday that reports he had received indicated that the train crew which bumped the two freight cars together did not know Kibboms was between the cars.
Kibbons was inspecting the heavy couplings when they closed in on him like iron claws and crushed him to death. His home was in Jonesboro, Ark.
He is survived by his wife, three sons, and three daughters all of whom reside at Jonesboro, Ark.
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