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- "Elizabethton Star," Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1931
MACK ELLIOTT KILLED IN PA.
Word has been received here by G. M. Garland, Broad Street, that Mack Elliott, a former resident of Carter County and brother-in-law of Garland, had been killed in an accident in Pennsylvania Monday afternoon. No further particulars were known at noon today, except that the body was being shipped to Elizabethton for burial.
Elliott was about 35 years of age and was a native of this county, residing at Hunter for many years. During labor troubles here, Elliott's home at Hunter was blown up by dynamite and completely demolished, which was one of the most exciting and drastic moves during the strike. A thorough investigation was held by state and local officials following the explosion but no one was ever captured or convicted for the deed.
Elliott left here some time after the wrecking of his home and accepted a position with the Standard Oil Company in Pennsylvania with which company he was working when his death occurred. The brief information received here in a telegram yesterday did not say whether he met his death in an automobile accident or in the plant of the oil company. The body will probably arrive in Elizabethton for burial some time tomorrow.
The deceased is a brother of Mrs. G. M. Garland and Mrs. J. R. Boles, both of Elizabethton. He is a cousin of County Tax Assessor James Elliott.
ELLIOTT, Mack
"Elizabethton Star," Friday, January 9, 1931
AUTO ACCIDENT KILLS ELLIOTT
Funeral services for Mack Elliott who was killed in an automobile accident in Ohio Monday afternoon, was held at the Baptist Church at Winner, Tennessee, yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. Kilgore in charge. Interment followed in the Ritchie Cemetery nearby.
According to information received here by relatives, Elliott was killed when the car he was driving had a head-on collision with another car Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock near Chambersburg, Ohio, while he was en route to his home at Folsom, Pennsylvania. He received a crushed skull in the accident and died twenty minutes later. Brown Elliott, a nephew of the deceased man, was in the car at the time and escaped with only painful bruises.
In giving the information, the nephew said, "We were going pretty fast as we were in a hurry to get back home and start on our work the next morning. It was raining, and the collision occurred when we attempted to pass a car in front of us and collided head-on with another car coming facing us."
The body was shipped here for burial. An ambulance from North Funeral Home met the train there and conveyed the remains to the home of his mother, Mrs. J. P. Elliott of Winner, after being prepared for burial.
Mr. Elliott had been mechanical foreman for the Sun Oil Company in Pennsylvania for the past two years. He is a native of Carter County and is well known here.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nora Elliott; mother, Mrs. J. P. Elliott of Winner; three brothers, Mark Elliott of Stoney Creek, who is an invalid; George Elliott also of Stoney Creek, and M. B. Elliott of Ohio; two sisters, Mrs. R. L. Bowles and Mrs. G. M. Garland of Elizabethton.
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1893 - 1931 (~ 37 years)
