Rev. R.D. Cross Run Down, Killed, by Auto in Los Angeles, June 12, 1924

Former Boone Pastor Is Killed by Motor Car

News has been received in Boone of the death of the Rev. R.D. Cross, for two years pastor of the |Baptist Church at this place.

Nothing has been learned other than that the minister died in Los Angeles, Cal. hospital three days after having been chased down by a speeding auto in that city.

Mr. Cross had many friends in the city who hear with a great deal of sorrow of his death.

From the front page of the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Thursday, June 12, 1924