Harley Crawford Davenport

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"Elizabethton Star, Monday, March 18, 1940
TWO ARE KILLED ONE BADLY HURT IN AUTO WRECK
Four Elizabethton residents were in an automobile accident near Linville Falls, N. C., yesterday afternoon, which left two men dead and two women severely injured.
The dead are Raleigh H. Lynch, 29, and Harley Crawford Davenport, 24; the injured are Mabel Stout and Marie Greer.
The accident occurred at about 2:30 o'clock as the quartet was headed toward Marion, N. C. The car catapulted over a 200-foot embankment, turning over several times before landing in a ravine below.
Failure to negotiate a curve is believed to be the cause of the accident.
Young Lynch was driver of the car. He was killed instantly. Davenport, with the two young ladies were rushed to the hospital at Marion, N. C., where he died six hours later from head and internal injuries. Lynch died from a crushed chest and head injuries.
Mabel Stout is the worse injured of the two ladies, receiving a fractured pelvis and a cerebral concussion. Marie Greer is suffering from bruises and minor lacerations.
Dr. McIntosh, the physician who is attending the young ladies, stated today that though Miss Stout is severely injured, he believed her condition would be all right unless complications should arise. She was unconscious when taken to the hospital. The attending physician said she would have to remain in the hospital for several days. Miss Greer will be able to leave the hospital within two days, he said.
Miss Greer, who was conscious after the accident, told relatives of the Davenport man that Lynch was driving recklessly and that she was afraid.
An ambulance from the McCall Funeral Home happened to be passing just as the accident occurred and aided in rushing the dead and injured to the hospital.
The body of Davenport was returned to the North Funeral Home here last night to prepare for burial, while the body of Lynch was returned by the Roy Hathaway Funeral Home.
Both men were employees of the American Bemberg Corporation.
Families Survive
Davenport leaves a wife and three small children, Bennie Jack, 3 years; William Carl, 19 mos.; Jerry Lowell, 6 mos. His wife was formerly Miss Mary Grace Willey. He is also survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Davenport; three brothers, Frank, Herman and Madison Davenport, all of Elizabethton; two sisters, Mrs. Martha Evelyn Edmondson, Elizabethton, and Mrs. Virgie Nidiffer, of Sullivan County. The Davenports reside on the Siam road.
Lynch is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Nell Lynch; one small son, Donald Haynes; his mother, Mrs. Ottis Lynch, Cliffside, N. C.; six brothers, Steve, of Greenville, S. C.; Therne, King's Mountain, N. C.; Adrian, Charlotte, N. C.; Jack, John Henry and Lem Rolland, Cliffside, N. C.
The body of Lynch was removed by the Roy Hathaway Funeral Home to the home of his mother, Mrs. Ottis Lynch, at Cliffside, N. C., where funeral and burial will be made.
Funeral services for Davenport will be held from the home of his brother, Herman Davenport, Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, Rev. Leon M. Hill officiating. Burial will be made in the family cemetery near Fairview Church off the Siam road.

DAVENPORT, Harley Crawford
LYNCH, Raleigh H.
"Elizabethton Star," Tuesday, March 19, 1940
WOMEN VICTIMS IN AUTO WRECK ARE IMPROVING
Hospital Attaches Report Marie Greer, Mabel Stout In Better Condition
The two women who were injured in the automobile accident which claimed the lives of their two male companians[sic] near Linville Fall, N. C. Sunday afternoon, are recovering in a hospital at Marion, N. C., where they were rushed following the accident.
Mabel Stout, who received a cerebral concussion and fractured pelvis, was more seriously injured of the two women. Marie Greer received minor injuries, more in the nature of bruises.
Hospital attaches stated today that both women are much better today. A rumor afloat that Miss Stout had never regained consciousness was denied by hospital attendants.
The men who lost their lives as the car catapulted over a 200-foot embankment, are Harley Crawford Davenport, 24, and Raleigh H. Lynch, 29. Bother were employed at the American Bemberg plant.
Funeral services for Davenport were held from the home of his brother, Herman Davenport, on the Siam Road this afternoon.
The body of Lynch was returned to his former home at Cliffside, N. C.