VIRGIE PRESTON
1883-1933
Mrs. Tip Preston, age 51, who resided at Meally postoffice on
Buffalo Creek, this county, was killed in a car wreck near
Wellston, Ohio, at 7:30 last Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Tip Preston, C. C. Price, Mrs. Amanda Meade and
daughter Miss Annabelle, and Miss Hester Childers, had spent last
week-end at Wellston and were returning home when the accident
occurred. It was snowing and sleeting in Ohio Sunday morning and
the car skidded on the icy pavement, ran into the ditch and turned
over a small embankment. Mrs. Preston was killed instantly in the
crash, her skull being crushed. Mr. Preston sustained three broken
ribs and other injuries but will recover, it is reported. He was
removed to his home at Meally Monday evening. Mrs. Meade was also
severly injured in the crash. She was brought to the Golden Rule
Hospital in Paintsville for treatment but removed to her home at
Thelma Tuesday. Miss Helen Childers received a fracture above the
left eye and is recovering in the Paintsville Hospital. Miss Meade
and Mr. Price received minor cuts and bruises.
The party was en route to Chillicothe, Ohio, to visit Guy B. Meade,
husband of Mrs. Meade, who is a patient in the U. S. Veterans
Hospital at that place. Judge J. Melvin Hall and R. W. Price went
to Wellston Sunday and accompanied the injured to their homes in
this county.
The ambulance of the Mountain Funiture & Hardware Company brought
the remains of Mrs. Preston to this city. Mrs. Preston was a member
of a prominent Johnson county family and a member of the Baptist
Church for a number of years. She is survived by her husband and
five children. One daughter, Mrs. German McPhere, of Wellston,
Ohio; four sons, Ocemus Preston, Earl Preston, Wilson Preston, all
of Meally, and a son who is in the C.C.C. stationed at Death
Valley, California.
Also three brothers, C. C. Price, of Paintsville, and John and
Henry Price of Thelma; two sisters, Mrs. Laura B. Ward, Thelma, and
Mrs. James F. Preston of Paintsville.
Funeral services were held from the Preston home at Meally Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock, and was conducted by Rev. Ide Preston, Rev.
Chas. Preston and Rev. Leonard Walters.
Burial in the family cemetery near the home.
PAINTSVILLE HERALD
THURSDAY
NOV. 30, 1933
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