ANCONIE KATHERINE DAVIS
ONE DIES AS CAR CRASHES ON BUFFALO
Floyd Stambaugh, Nippa, Death Car Driver, Badly Hurt
One woman was killed instantly and two other women and three men
in an automobile were injured, some seriously, when the vehicle
left the road near the mouth of Buffalo Creek at around 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
The dead woman was Miss Anconie Katherine Davis, 23, daughter of
Mrs. Herbert Davis of Stafford Addition. Floyd Stambaugh, driver
and owner of the car, and two sisters, Pearle Tackett and Clystia
Tackett of Staffordsville, were seriously injured, it was said.
The two sisters are now in the Paintsville Hospital while
Stambaugh is in the Paintsville Clinic. Two other men, said to
have been Arnold Combs, Nippa, and Chic Dingess of West Virginia,
were less seriously hurt and were not kept in the hospital.
An inquest was held Monday morning by Johnson County Coroner, Rev.
Guy W. Preston and a coroner's jury consisting of Milt Grim and
Frank Daniel of Nippa, Mont Redford and Albert Colvin of
Paintsville, Ballard Castle, Thealka and Claude May, Asa.
Mr. Preston said the death car left the road and cleared a barbed-
wire fence to land in the creek bottom across the road from Eddie
Ward's home.
According to witnesses, Mr. Preston said, the car was making
excessive speed when the accident occurred. The motor was almost
completely demolished from having apparently landed fence.
The Coroner's jury refrained from placing the blame for the death,
except to say that Miss Davis met death in a motor accident.
The wrecked car was brought to the Big Sandy Motor Company's
Garage in Stafford Addition.
Dr. F. M. Picklesimer of the Clinic, said Stambaugh was
unconscious when brought to the hospital, but that his condition
is not serious.
Besides her mother, who was Miss Mary Castle before her marriage,
Miss Davis is survived by a brother, Millard Davis somewhere in
the state of Maine, another brother, who is in the U. S. Army,
Herbert Davis Jr., Hulen, Texas, and the following brothers and
sisters at home; Arizona, Jackieline, Lillian and Franklin.
Funeral services are to be held at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning if
the brother who is in Texas arrives by that time.
Miss Davis was a former employee of the Blue and Gold Cafe, Depot
Road, but had not worked there since early summer, it was said.
Her father, Herbert Davis died some five years ago. He was a
miner employed at Van Lear. He was the son of the late Leck
Davis.
Paintsville Herald
Thursday
September 25, 1941
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