Lee County, Kentucky
Transcribed submitted by Debi Kendrick
Owsley County Courier Friday, July 28, 1939
Wounds Prove Fatal to T. M. PENDERGRASS
Tom Morgan PENDERGRASS, 59, died at the Gurrant Clinic in Winchester, Ky, Sunday, July 23, at 4:30 a.m. he was admitted to the hospital on July 1 suffering from bullet wounds in the arm and head.
Funeral services were held at Pleasant Grove at 2:30 Monday afternoon by the Rev. WALTERS. Internment was in the family cemetery at Pleasant Grove. Garrett Funeral Home of Beattyville was in charge.
PENDERGRASS was struck by bullets fired during a fight July 1 between Charles THOMAS and Wilgus STEELE at Rowland's Inn on the Beattyville-Booneville Highway. He was brought to Beattyville where first aid was rendered and then rushed to the hospital where, for a while, it looked as if he would recover.
He is survived by his widow: eight children: Lillian HALCOMB, Kings Mill, Ohio, Mrs. Cassie REYNOLDS, Lancaster, Dessie GABBARD, Indiana, Clifford, Alberta, Merril, Carrie and Cleveland, all of Booneville; two brothers, Bill of Dayton, Ohio, and Robert of St. Paul, Minnesota, and two sisters, Lou DALEY, Dayton, Ohio, and Haddie BOWMAN, Scoville, Ky