1914 TRAIN TRAGEDY KILLS YOUTH
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A 1914 Calhoun Chronicle reported "A very sad accident occurred on Bear Fork involving a Millstone boy."
Harley B. Ball, age 17 was killed while attempting to board a train in Bear Fork. He was born in 1897 to Letcher Ball and Kathren Dawson Ball.
Mrs. Ball, the young man's mother, is a sister to Mrs. Seymour Langford, two of whose children drowned in the waters of Henry's Fork recently.
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Knight School on Sycamore, about 1914, with Harley Ball
second person from the left in the back row, buried at the
Albert's Chapel Cemetery on Sand Ridge beside his parents.
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