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Mary Elizabeth Ball

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Mary Elizabeth Ball

Birth
Death
22 Aug 1955 (aged 7)
Spring City, Rhea County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Spring City, Rhea County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Victim of train--school bus accident. Daughter of Walter and Hazel Ball.
Forty-seven children from Spring City Elementary School boarded the school bus on the afternoon of Aug. 22, 1955, just before 3 p.m. for the ride home. Eleven children never made it home.

Mary Elizabeth Ball, Everett Edwards, Jr., Rose Mary Gideon, James Leon Hackler, Edward Muriel Hartbarger, Wallace Sanders Hartbarger, Charlotte Ann Marshall, Sherry Diane Mincey, Jerry Mincey, Rickey Phillips and Max Phillips were killed in the horrible tragedy.
Victim of train--school bus accident. Daughter of Walter and Hazel Ball.
Forty-seven children from Spring City Elementary School boarded the school bus on the afternoon of Aug. 22, 1955, just before 3 p.m. for the ride home. Eleven children never made it home.

Mary Elizabeth Ball, Everett Edwards, Jr., Rose Mary Gideon, James Leon Hackler, Edward Muriel Hartbarger, Wallace Sanders Hartbarger, Charlotte Ann Marshall, Sherry Diane Mincey, Jerry Mincey, Rickey Phillips and Max Phillips were killed in the horrible tragedy.


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