Felix Grundy PRESSON M#21927402
Special Railroad Detective Murdered
Lived 39 years 10 Months 11 days
Slain In Memphis, Tennessee on the
night of 22 Aug 1937 at 9:30 p.m.

Survivors:
His Widow:
Eva Myrtle MATHENY Presson
1898 –
4 Daughters:
Marie PRESSON
1919
Willodean PRESSON
1923
Leora PRESSON
1925
Joyce PRESSON
1927

Parents:
Casual Hampton PRESSON
(1875 – 1937)
M#82431839
Sarah Adeline COOPER Presson
(1879 – 1949)
M#82432217
Siblings:
1.Samuel Crayton PRESSON
(1899-1966)
2.Albert Franklin PRESSON
(1901-1983)
3.Delilah Ellen PRESSON
(1902-1994)
4.Edna Ervine PRESSON
(1906-1984)
5.Casual Malcolm PRESSON
(1910-2003)
6.Richard Gilman PRESSON
(1914-1974)
M#22854027
7.Herman Warren PRESSON
(1921-1999)

Below are several newspaper articles
about the murder of Felix G PRESSON

SLAIN IN MEMPHIS dated 22 Aug 1937
Felix G. Presson, citizen of
Carroll County, Shot and Instantly
Killed. His boy literally riddled
with bullets. Felix G. Presson, Nash-
Ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Rail
road Special Agent,was fatally wounded
in a gun battle with unknown assailants
at Webster Avenue and the N.C. & St L.
tracks, behind Union Station, Memphis,
Sunday night, shortly after 9:30 p.m.
No one saw the battle, but two men,
Mr. W.K. Johnson, the freight conductor
and Mr. Henry Murphy, negro, S69 Barton,
an Oilier, heard the shots and started
toward the scene, a gravel path between
two row of box cars.

STUMBLES OVER BODY
Murphy stumbled over the body,
lying across the path. In one hand
Mr. Presson held his revolver, which
had been emptied by six shots in the
other a light, which was still burning.
About ten feet from the body a .32
caliber automatic pistol was discovered
and in the gravel were found five
exploded shells.
Mr. Presson was taken to St. Joseph's
Hospital, but was pronounced dead upon
arrival. He was shot seven time; in
the right jaw, in his back, in his
breast, above his right eye, twice in
the right arm and in the left arm.

SAW FLEEING PAIR
Captain Ernest Wattam and Squad Car
Patrolmen Kin & Davis searched the
yards of some traces of the assailants,
but found few clues.
Henry Miller, 1118 St. Paul, said he
saw two men running away from the scene
of the shooting shortly after 9:30 o'clock.
Mr. Johnson described two men who sought
entrance into his caboose earlier in the
evening but were frightened away when he
came to the door. The descriptions of the
two men tallied but neither was able to say
if they were white.

PURSUED FUGITIVES
"Ä little later Mr. Presson came to my
caboose and I told him about the two men:,
Mr. Johnson said, "He said: 'they're the
ones I'm after", and went in the direction
they had gone. The shooting occurred right
after that.
Mr. Presson, who is the father of four
children, boarded with Mrs. H.F. Cavette
of 558 Lucy. His family lives in Hollow
Rock, where he had moved them in December.
His father, who is critically ill, lives
near Huntington, in the 23rd district.

WITH RAILROAD 15 YEARS
Mr. Presson has been with the N.C. & St L
Railroad about 15 years and worked with
Special Agent Gene Allen, 815 S Parkway
East. He was 40 years of age and was a
member of the Methodist Church. He was
a member of a prominent family and a
fearless officer.

SURVIVORS are:
His Widow, Mrs. Eva Matheny Presson,
4 daughters, Marie, Willodean, Elonar
and Joyce,
his parents, Mr & Mrs. C.H. PRESSON,
5 brothers, Craton & Albert Presson
of Akron, Ohio, Malcolm, Gilman and
Warren PRESSON, all of this county,
and 2 sisters, Mrs. Dorsey Hill and
Mrs. Clifford Matheny.
Funeral services were conducted on
Tuesday afternoon at Prospect Church
at Hollow Rock by the Rev. T.M. Boyd
of Memphis. Burial was at Long Rock
Cemetery with Masonic Honors.

TRAIN DETECTIVE PRESSON as of
18 Apr 2008, Felix Presson's murder
is still unsolved in Memphis Tennessee.