STATE OF TENNESSEE CERTIFICATE OF DEATH number 13486
McNairy County/14th Civil District/Village-Chewalla
File No. 142
Primary Registration Dist. No. 45714
Deceased, Prentiss Rad Smith
male, white, married
Married to-Vercie Hurley
Date of Birth-Oct. 24, 1906
age- 28 years 7 months, 23 days
occ.-farmer
birthplace-Chewalla, Tennessee
Father-T.T. Smith, born AL
Mother-Mamie Cotton, born AL
Informant-Bryan Smith, Chewalla, Tennessee
Burial-Indian Creek June 18, 1935
Undertaker-R.B. Gooch
Date of death-June 17, 1935 at 12:30 a.m.
Cause of death-accident
Date of injury-June 17, 1935
Chewalla, Tennessee, McNairy County
Public place-railroad train
nature of injury-severe cranial and bodily fractory-instant death
D.G. Robinson, county coroner, Selmer, Tennessee