Minister's Wife, Child Killed In Car Crash
Shepherdsville, Ky. - AP - Mrs. Virginia Cundiff, 38, and her six-year-old daughter, Cerelda Jane, were killed, and her husband, the Rev. Ben Cundiff, 55, Baptist minister, was critically injured Sunday when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a train here.
From 15 Feb 1943 issue of The Kingsport Times (Kingsport, Tennessee)
Rev. Cundiff died the next day at St. Joseph Infirmary in Louisville. According to his death certificate, Benjamin Harrison Cundiff was born 28 Aug 1888 to G. W. and Jennie (Moore) Cundiff. Virginia (Carney) Cundiff was born 14 Jan 1909, and their daughter Cerelda Jane Cundiff was born 27 Apr 1936.
The accident that took their lives happened at the railroad crossing of state highway 44 in Shepherdsville.
J. Ernest Bowman Killed at Lebanon Jct, 1913
(misnamed in newspaper)
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