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Robert Phillips Grimes, Sr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal October 2, 1969

Final Rites Held Here For Phil Grimes, Train Victim

Robert Phillips Grimes, Sr., prominent farmer of Mound, Louisiana, and a member of the Madison Parish 
Police Jury, was fatally injured Monday afternoon when the combine he was driving was struck by an 
Illinois Central freight train at the Mound Crossing.

Mr. Grimes, 65, was thrown from the combine which was demolished. A Crothers ambulance rushed him to a 
Vicksburg hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The engineer of the eastbound freight, 
C. B. Edwards of Bossier City. La., said that Grimes seemed to hesitate for a moment, then continued 
onto the track as the train approached. Residents near the scene of the accident said he did not appear 
to see or hear the train over the noise of the machine he was driving.

His son, Robert P. Grimes, Jr., driving a pickup, had preceded his father over the crossing a few moments 
earlier, going to the field where they were to combine soybeans. State Trooper Stanley Cox said the only 
eye witness was four-year-old Teddy Shearer, who said the train blew, but Mr. Grimes did not appear to 
see or hear the approaching locomotive, else he thought he could clear the tracks before it arrived. 
The train struck the machine on the right rear throwing Mr. Grimes out of the cab onto the grass beside 
the tracks. Railroad officials said warning devises at the crossing were in operation.

Mr. Grimes was a native of the Pelahatchie area of Mississippi and had lived in Louisiana about 46 years. 
He had a large peach orchard in addition to other farming interests, and did custom harvesting.

He was an elder and song leader at the Church of Christ in Tallulah; and was also a Mason.

Ile leaves his wife, Mrs. Lora Keller Grimes of Mound; his son, Robert Phillip Grimes. Jr. and three 
grandchildren of Tallulah; three brothers, Charles Grimes of Belcher, La., Claude Grimes of Tallulah, and 
S. S. Grimes of Richmond, Tex.; five sisters, Mrs. M. S. Graham of Texas City. Tex., Mrs. M. C. Burnham of 
Cullen, La., Mrs. C. W. Beck of Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Dorothy Rogers of Pelahatchie, and Mrs. S. II. Dreher, Sr., 
of Bradley.

Services were held Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. at the Tallulah Church of Christ with Don Hale, the pastor, 
officiating assisted by Seller Crane and Rudolph Hunt. Burial was in Silver Cross Cemetery. 

Pallbearers were Tommy Cleveland, Maurice Grady, Bill Grady, M. A. Wroten, Rod Naylor and Andrew Yerger.