Clinton Man Drops Dead On shore of Norris Lake Saturday while fishing<\/strong>.\u00a0 Charles R. Slover, 67, of Clinton, dropped dead on the shore of Norris Lake early Saturday morning while fishing with his son, Whitman. Death was caused by a heart attack.<\/p>\n Mr. Slover\u00a0was a distant relative of Col. S. L. Slover, Norfolk publisher, who presented the courthouse clock and chimes to the town and county.<\/p>\n For months, Mr. Slover\u00a0had gone to Norris Lake daily and at the time of his death it was understood that he was searching for grasshoppers for bait.<\/p>\n Surviving: Two sons, Whitman and Roscoe; one daughter, Mrs Ruby Clough; one brother, Luke Slover of Knoxville,one sister, Mrs. Samuel Maples, of Knoxville, and three grandchildren.<\/p>\n Funeral services were held Monday at the home at 2pm. Burial was in Sunset Cemetery.<\/p>\n Pallbearers were Hustus\u00a0Austus, Bob Hutton, Sam Hendrickson, Floyd Hutchison, Charles Cantrell and Harry Pierce.<\/p>\n Holley Funeral Home was in charge.<\/p>\n Clinton Courier News, <\/em>3 Feb 1938<\/p>\n [Courtesy of Brenda Foster]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obituary of Charles R. Slover, 1938: Clinton Man Drops Dead On shore of Norris Lake Saturday while fishing.\u00a0 Charles R. Slover, 67, of Clinton, dropped dead on the shore of Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-q-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4856,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/4856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}