Robert Lee INGRAM
- Born: 30 Oct 1905, Grandview, Raleigh Co., WV 3959
- Marriage: Zola Jane SIMMS
- Died: 24 Jun 1949, Beckley, Raleigh Co., WV at age 43 3959
- Buried: 26 Jun 1949, Grandview Cemetery, Grandview, Raleigh Co., WV 3959
Cause of his death was severe burns, 3rd degree all extremeties & body, compound fracture right leg.
General Notes:
The Raleigh Register, Beckley, WV, 26 June 1949
Accident Victim's Funeral Set Today
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Grandview home of the mother, Mrs. James Ingram, for Robert Lee Ingram, 41, who died in a local hospital at 8:30 p.m. Friday as the result of injuries he received in a strip mine accident at Grandview on Tuesday.
Ingram was burned in a fire which broke out in a steam shovel of Ampollini and Son.
A son of the late James Ingram, besides his mother he is survived by his wife, Zoda; six children, Mary, Anna, Zada, Betty and Bobby, twins, and Roy and Jimmy, all at home; a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Hicks of Grandview, and three brothers, Preston, Frank and Elliott, all of Grandview.
The body was moved from the Koyster Funeral Home to the home of his mother at 5 p.m. yesterday where services will be held under the direction of the Rev. Robert Deane, of Bradley; and the Rev. Harry Simms, of Lookout, assisting.
Robert married Zola Jane SIMMS, daughter of William David SIMMS and Octavia C. WOOLDRIDGE. (Zola Jane SIMMS was born on 21 Jul 1912 in Fayette Co., WV 55 and died on 7 Nov 1996 in Wyco, Wyoming Co., WV 55.)
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