Thursday, November 13, 2025

Sallie Marie Cashion, 17, Killed Crossing Tracks, Nov. 14, 1925

Young Bride Killed by Passenger Train. . . Mrs. Sallie Marie Cashion, 17 Years Old, Victim of Fatal Accident Near Gastonia

Gastonia, Nov. 13—While crossing the Piedmont and Northern Railway tracks at Groves Station, near here, last night, Mrs. Sallie Marie Cashion, 17-year-old bride of a mill employee, was fatally injured when hit by a Charlotte-Gastonia passenger train, both her legs being broken and her skull crushed. She was on her way to a mill office to get her weekly pay envelope, it was stated.

Deceased married James Cashion in York, S.C., August 22. She was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at Hardin. Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at the home in East Gastonia by the Rev. C.K. Rhodes.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Nov. 14, 1925

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