Chancey, Oral V.

Passed: 1934-04-08

Age: 19

Source: Mountaineer

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1934-04-12

Information: HEAD STRIKES LIVE WIRE; YOUTH FATALLY INJURED - Oral Chancey, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Chancey died Saturday in a hospital at Welch, McDowell county.  The young man was riding a freight train out of Welch about twenty miles and in going through a tunnel his head struck a live trolley wire throwing him from the top of the box car upon which he was riding and the train passed over his left arm and leg.  He was picked up by a train crew at once and rushed to the hospital where he lived until midnight.  The accident happened about three o'clock in the afternoon.      He was unconscious at the time he was found and never regained consciousness until after he was in the hospital.  He recovered sufficiently to tell them who he was, parents names and gave them the name of a relative, W. T. Chancey, at Ripley.  His arm and leg were so mangled that they were removed at the hospital.  He had a bad injury in the back of his head where it had struck the wire.  He was burned from the place the wire struck him to his feet.  Mr. Chancey recieved a telephone message Sunday about noon telling of his injury but it did not state that he was dead.  The father, a sister, Mrs. Fred Lewis and husband and Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Boggess went to Welch and took the body in charge and arrived home with it Monday.      Oral had left home on the Monday before seeking work.  He had come to Ripley and on Tuesday went to Charleston with Basil Casto and from there he had gone alone.  He had made his way into Tennessee, likely by picking up rides along the public highways.  In Tennessee he wrote back home saying that he had found no work and if his luck didn't change he would be home within the next few days.  The next heard of him was his tragic death.  It is supposed that he was on his way home at the time of the accident.  He is survived by his parents and three sisters, Mrs. Fred Lewis, Marie and Emma.  Funeral services wee held in the home church Wednesday, conducted by Rev. Garrison.  Burial in the church cemetery.  (Ephesus Cemetery)      Obiturary April 26th      Oral V. Chancey, son of Armstrong and Claudie Chancey, was born in Jackson County July 13, 1914, died in the Welch hospital, April 7, 1934; age 19 years, 8 months and 24 days.      The deceased leaves to mourn his loss, father, mother and three sisters, namely:  Irene Lewis, Marie and Emma Chancey and a host of relatives and friends.      On Thursday the funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. A. Garrison at the Glass Lick Church and interment was made in the Grass Lick cemetery.      Before he parted from this life, he found the way of Eternal life, the way he was taught. But O, how we miss him.  God's will must be done not ours.  It is so sad and lonesome without his voice and presence.  But those comforting words which gives us the assurance of meeting him and hearing his voice again beyond this vale of tears.  For when God calls for us to come home He makes no mistakes.  He said it was appointed unto man to die and this the judgement.      We were told at the hospital that he had the assurance of Eternal life and his bright smile was comforting to us and his friends.  But he was so young and fair to part from this life.  It grieved father, mother and sisters so to know we can never see him or hear his voice on this earth again.  But we are told there is a place where pleasure never dies.  For where Jesus is it is heaven there.  (Poem followed)