Thursday, June 11, 2026

J.C. Loflin, 75, Struck by Train While Trying to Get Cow off Tracks, June 11, 1926

Killed Trying to Get Cow Off Railroad

Asheboro, June 9—J. Cornelius Loflin, aged 75, unmarried, was killed yesterday afternoon at Star when hit by a southbound Norfolk Southern train. Loflin was trying to get a cow off the railroad track at the time the accident occurred.

He was born in Randolph County, a son of the late McKinley and Emiline Loflin. He leaves two brothers, J.S. Loflin, Star policeman, with whom he made his home for the past 30 years, and Matthew Loflin of Kansas, and a sister, Rose Loflin, also of the state of Kansas.

From page 7 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, June 11, 1926

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1926-06-11/ed-1/seq-7/

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