LOUISE WYATT COLLECTION

Elliott S. Wall
(c.1928 – c.1959)

Rites This Afternoon for Car-Train Victim

Hopkinsville –
Services for Elliott S. Wall, 31, Hopkinsville auto salesman killed in a car-train collision here Wednesday, will be at 2 p.m. today at Henninger and Lilly funeral home.  Burial will be in Green Hill Memorial Gardens.  Pierce A. Daniel, 34, also a Hopkinsville car salesman, who was in the car with Mr. Wall, remained in critical condition at Jennie Stuart Hospital later yesterday.  Mr. Wall is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mamie Soapes Wall; four children, Larry, 11; Eddie Ray, 7; Debbie, 6; and Janis, 3; his mother, Mrs. Elmwood Wright, Todd County; a brother Dotson Wall, Hopkinsville, and a sister, Mrs. Virgie Morgan, Christian County.

(Note:  Elliott was a great grandson of Martha L. Roper and Edward Matthew Threatt.  He was the ggg grandson of Rev. War soldier Lewis Atkins.)