The Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama
8 January, 1940

EULATON MAN DIES
WHEN HIT BY TRAIN
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James Adams Gilliland
Killed Sunday
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    James Adams Gilliland, age 29, was killed instantly when struck by a Louisville and Nashville Railroad train about noon Sunday near his home on the Eulaton Road.
    According to the information procured by Coroner T. Flint Gray, Mr. Gilliland, whose hearing was impaired, was standing on the L. and N. track watching an approaching freight train on the parallel Southern Railway track at the time he was struck. Coroner Gray said he learned that Gilliland’s brother, J. D., called to him but to no avail. His head reportedly was knocked about 40 yards from his body.
     Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the First Baptist Church with the Rev. L. N. Claxton and the Rev. G. D. Walls officiating. Interment will be in Edgemont Cemetery with Jones directing.
    Surviving are the widow and two children, James and Kenneth; two brothers, J. D. of Anniston, Route 3, and Will of Weogufga, and a sister, Mrs. Wallace O’Kelley, Iron City.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013