HUR HERALD'S BEAR FORK TALES: 1914 TRAGEDY - Millstone Boy Killed By Bear Fork Train |
(04/06/2025) |
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
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