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Newspaper Article of COUSINS Jesse B and PENDLETON COUSINS Family Accident
Auto-Train Smash-up Sunday
The Williamson County Sun, September 19, 1930
The Chisholm Trail, Vol. 24, No. 3, Winter, 2005

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[Document provided by Williamson County Genealogical Society, Round Rock, TEXAS.]

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The Chisholm Trail, Vol. 24, No. 3, Winter, 2005.

(The Williamson County Sun, September 19, 1930)

Auto-Train Smash-Up Sunday
Fast Missouri - Kansas - Texas Passenger Train Hits Car
Occupied by Runnels County Family
Four Miles South of Georgetown

Party Starts for Afternoon Drive; One Lives

Nine-Year-Old Son Will Survive injuries Suffered When Others Killed

Four persons were killed and one dangerously wounded late Sunday afternoon when the Southbound M - K - T passenger train from St. Louis to San Antonio hit the car in which the family of J. B. Cousins were riding at a grade crossing, four mile south of Georgetown. The dead:
J. B. Cousins, 39
Mrs. Elizia Cousins, 39
Archie Cousins, 6
Harold Cousins, 2.

J. B. Cousins,. Jr., 9, suffered serious injuries and body bruises and at first it was thought his injuries would be fatal, but he is making recovery.

DID NOT SEE TRAIN
All of the dead lived at Talpa, Runnels county and had for a time been in this section with the family of Louis Pendleton, whose wife is a sister of the dead man, picking cotton. Runnels county is in the drought _ ? _ and these men are farmers, their own crops failed and so they came _ ? _ to assist in gathering the cotton and making a livelihood. Sunday afternoon the children of the two families wanted to go for a drive to Taylor, the two-year-old child killed being especially anxious to go and was largely due to his insistence that the two families did start. In high glee, the children set out on their journey of pleasure only to meet death.

Mr. Pendleton with his family, was ahead and had passed across the tracks of the railroad some yards, when they heard a crash and looking back saw the car and the bodies of their kinsmen hurling through space. Mr. Pendleton does not believe either Mr. and Mrs. Cousins saw or heard the train.

CROSSING OBSCURE
The crossing at which the accident happened is on what is known as the Bell school house cut-off, a road running from the old Round Rock Road across Highway No. 2, and thence to the Hutto road
intersecting that road near Bell school house. At the point where the tracks cross the road the track is obscure. The railroad skirting the hill through a cut and dirt piled high from the cut. It is a very dangerous crossing.

BODIES BROUGHT BACK
Engineer Robinson, who was pulling the train, stated that he did not see the car until it dashed in front of his engine not ten feet ahead of him. It was impossible to stop in time to save the wreck.

After the engine had hit the car Engineer Robinson brought the train to a stop and in charge of conductor Bateman, the bodies were picked up along with the injured boy and the train backed to the station at Georgetown where the boy was sent to the Martin hospital and the bodies of his parents turned over to the Davis Undertaking Co. to be prepared for burial.

The mother and one child suffered broken necks in addition to other injuries, while the father and the other child suffered head injuries and other hurts about the body any of which would have been fatal. Of course it is a matter of surmise only, but it is believed the life of J. B. Jr., was saved by reason of the fact that he was caught in the top which was knocked along the track by the impact and the whirling wheels of the train.

SHIPPED HOME
The bodies of the little family were shipped Monday to their former home in Talpa where interment was held, all being buried in the same grave on Tuesday.

page 124
The Chisholm Trail, Vol. 24, No. 3, Winter, 2005.
Williamson County Death Records - Book 2
Copied by Linda Emry
Name - Sex [Gender] - Color - Marital Status - Father, Mother - Date of Death - Place of Death - Place of Burial
- Cousins, J. B. , M, White, Married, blank, blank, 14 Sep 1930, blank, Navice [Novice], Texas
- Cousins, Mrs. Lizzie, F, White, Married, J. L. Pendleton, Pollie O'Neal, 14 Sep 1930, blank, Navice, Texas
- Cousins, Archie, M, White, Single, J. B. Cousins, Lizzie Pendleton, 14 Sep 1930, blank, Navice, Texas
- Cousins, Harrold, M, White, Single, J. B. Cousins, Lizzie Pendleton, 14 Sep 1930, blank, Navice, Texas
See page 126 for the newspaper account of the Cousins' family deaths


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