Robert was the second of three sons born to Samuel Marshall and Martha Jane (Reed) Boatright. He married Fannie Davis in 1911 and they were the parents of four children: Virginia, Lois Jane, Betty Ann and (Infant Son).
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, IL
Jun 30, 1951
Wreck Victim
R. O. Boatright
Services Sunday
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon in Marion for Robert O. Boatright, 62, mail clerk who died in the wreck of the Meadowlark passenger train Thursday night.
Mr. Boatright, 510 South Askew, as born in Saline county on July 24, 1888, the son of Samuel and Janie Reed Boatright. At the time of his death he was 62 years, 11 months, and 4 days of age.
He married Miss Fannie Davis in Murphysboro, Feb. 10, 1911. Besides his wife he leaves two daughters, Mrs. Curtis Mann, West Frankfort, and Miss Betty Anne Boatright, Marion, music instructor for the Herrin grade schools, and a brother, Hugh Boatright, Marion.
MR. BOATRIGHT was a mail clerk on the C & E. I. Meadowlark train. He had worked as a mail clerk for 40 years, and had expected to retire this year.
He was a member of the Aldersgate Methodist church where funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. W. C. Bruce officiating. Burial will be in Maplewood cemetery.
Friends may call at the Frick funeral home in Marion. The casket will not be opened in the church.
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, IL
Jun 29, 1951
Train Somersaults
Down 60-Foot Bank
Two trainmen were killed at 9:30 p.m. yesterday were killed at 9:30 p.m. yesterday when the Chicago & Central Illinois railroad crack passenger train, the Meadowlark, hit a rain-weakened section of track near Mode, 15 miles south of Shelbyville and somersaulted down a 60-foot embankment.
The diesel locomotive and mail coach plunged from a high trestle over Bruch creek and the Passenger coaches turned over on their sides and slid down a 60-foot embankment from the trestle's north approach.
THE DEAD ARE: C. L. Mills, 64, Salem, the fireman, and Robert Boatright, 63, mail clerk, of Marion.
The body of Fireman Mills was pinned beneath the wreckage of the engine and he apparently was killed instantly. The body was removed at 6 a.m. today after a portion of the engine was cut away with acetylene torches.
The body of Mr. Boatright, the mail clerk, was removed from the baggage coach about 8:30 a.m. today and taken to a Salem funeral home.
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, IL
Jun 30, 1951
Wreck Victim
R. O. Boatright
Services Sunday
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon in Marion for Robert O. Boatright, 62, mail clerk who died in the wreck of the Meadowlark passenger train Thursday night.
Mr. Boatright, 510 South Askew, as born in Saline county on July 24, 1888, the son of Samuel and Janie Reed Boatright. At the time of his death he was 62 years, 11 months, and 4 days of age.
He married Miss Fannie Davis in Murphysboro, Feb. 10, 1911. Besides his wife he leaves two daughters, Mrs. Curtis Mann, West Frankfort, and Miss Betty Anne Boatright, Marion, music instructor for the Herrin grade schools, and a brother, Hugh Boatright, Marion.
MR. BOATRIGHT was a mail clerk on the C & E. I. Meadowlark train. He had worked as a mail clerk for 40 years, and had expected to retire this year.
He was a member of the Aldersgate Methodist church where funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. W. C. Bruce officiating. Burial will be in Maplewood cemetery.
Friends may call at the Frick funeral home in Marion. The casket will not be opened in the church.
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, IL
Jun 29, 1951
Train Somersaults
Down 60-Foot Bank
Two trainmen were killed at 9:30 p.m. yesterday were killed at 9:30 p.m. yesterday when the Chicago & Central Illinois railroad crack passenger train, the Meadowlark, hit a rain-weakened section of track near Mode, 15 miles south of Shelbyville and somersaulted down a 60-foot embankment.
The diesel locomotive and mail coach plunged from a high trestle over Bruch creek and the Passenger coaches turned over on their sides and slid down a 60-foot embankment from the trestle's north approach.
THE DEAD ARE: C. L. Mills, 64, Salem, the fireman, and Robert Boatright, 63, mail clerk, of Marion.
The body of Fireman Mills was pinned beneath the wreckage of the engine and he apparently was killed instantly. The body was removed at 6 a.m. today after a portion of the engine was cut away with acetylene torches.
The body of Mr. Boatright, the mail clerk, was removed from the baggage coach about 8:30 a.m. today and taken to a Salem funeral home.
Robert was the second of three sons born to Samuel Marshall and Martha Jane (Reed) Boatright. He married Fannie Davis in 1911 and they were the parents of four children: Virginia, Lois Jane, Betty Ann and (Infant Son).
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, IL
Jun 30, 1951
Wreck Victim
R. O. Boatright
Services Sunday
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon in Marion for Robert O. Boatright, 62, mail clerk who died in the wreck of the Meadowlark passenger train Thursday night.
Mr. Boatright, 510 South Askew, as born in Saline county on July 24, 1888, the son of Samuel and Janie Reed Boatright. At the time of his death he was 62 years, 11 months, and 4 days of age.
He married Miss Fannie Davis in Murphysboro, Feb. 10, 1911. Besides his wife he leaves two daughters, Mrs. Curtis Mann, West Frankfort, and Miss Betty Anne Boatright, Marion, music instructor for the Herrin grade schools, and a brother, Hugh Boatright, Marion.
MR. BOATRIGHT was a mail clerk on the C & E. I. Meadowlark train. He had worked as a mail clerk for 40 years, and had expected to retire this year.
He was a member of the Aldersgate Methodist church where funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. W. C. Bruce officiating. Burial will be in Maplewood cemetery.
Friends may call at the Frick funeral home in Marion. The casket will not be opened in the church.
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, IL
Jun 29, 1951
Train Somersaults
Down 60-Foot Bank
Two trainmen were killed at 9:30 p.m. yesterday were killed at 9:30 p.m. yesterday when the Chicago & Central Illinois railroad crack passenger train, the Meadowlark, hit a rain-weakened section of track near Mode, 15 miles south of Shelbyville and somersaulted down a 60-foot embankment.
The diesel locomotive and mail coach plunged from a high trestle over Bruch creek and the Passenger coaches turned over on their sides and slid down a 60-foot embankment from the trestle's north approach.
THE DEAD ARE: C. L. Mills, 64, Salem, the fireman, and Robert Boatright, 63, mail clerk, of Marion.
The body of Fireman Mills was pinned beneath the wreckage of the engine and he apparently was killed instantly. The body was removed at 6 a.m. today after a portion of the engine was cut away with acetylene torches.
The body of Mr. Boatright, the mail clerk, was removed from the baggage coach about 8:30 a.m. today and taken to a Salem funeral home.
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, IL
Jun 30, 1951
Wreck Victim
R. O. Boatright
Services Sunday
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon in Marion for Robert O. Boatright, 62, mail clerk who died in the wreck of the Meadowlark passenger train Thursday night.
Mr. Boatright, 510 South Askew, as born in Saline county on July 24, 1888, the son of Samuel and Janie Reed Boatright. At the time of his death he was 62 years, 11 months, and 4 days of age.
He married Miss Fannie Davis in Murphysboro, Feb. 10, 1911. Besides his wife he leaves two daughters, Mrs. Curtis Mann, West Frankfort, and Miss Betty Anne Boatright, Marion, music instructor for the Herrin grade schools, and a brother, Hugh Boatright, Marion.
MR. BOATRIGHT was a mail clerk on the C & E. I. Meadowlark train. He had worked as a mail clerk for 40 years, and had expected to retire this year.
He was a member of the Aldersgate Methodist church where funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. W. C. Bruce officiating. Burial will be in Maplewood cemetery.
Friends may call at the Frick funeral home in Marion. The casket will not be opened in the church.
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, IL
Jun 29, 1951
Train Somersaults
Down 60-Foot Bank
Two trainmen were killed at 9:30 p.m. yesterday were killed at 9:30 p.m. yesterday when the Chicago & Central Illinois railroad crack passenger train, the Meadowlark, hit a rain-weakened section of track near Mode, 15 miles south of Shelbyville and somersaulted down a 60-foot embankment.
The diesel locomotive and mail coach plunged from a high trestle over Bruch creek and the Passenger coaches turned over on their sides and slid down a 60-foot embankment from the trestle's north approach.
THE DEAD ARE: C. L. Mills, 64, Salem, the fireman, and Robert Boatright, 63, mail clerk, of Marion.
The body of Fireman Mills was pinned beneath the wreckage of the engine and he apparently was killed instantly. The body was removed at 6 a.m. today after a portion of the engine was cut away with acetylene torches.
The body of Mr. Boatright, the mail clerk, was removed from the baggage coach about 8:30 a.m. today and taken to a Salem funeral home.
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