Name |
Ovia Mack Cuniff |
Suffix |
Sr. |
Birth |
05 Feb 1902 |
Jefferson Co, Texas |
Gender |
Male |
Other-Begin |
10 Nov 1934 |
Jefferson Co, Texas |
- Ovia Mack was involved in an accident in which Miss Beulah Floy Bledsoe, age 30, Memorial librarian, was killed and two other young Port Arthur women were injured. They were Miss Louise Pfeiffer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P.C. Pfeiffer, and Miss Helen Green of Cameron, both Port Arthur school teachers. O.M. was charged with drunken driving.
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Damages won in Crash Suit
Port Arthur News Oct 24, 1935
Miss Helen Green Awarded $4175 by jury
Beaumong - 58th district court jury late Wednesday awarded Miss Helen Green damages of $4175 in her suit against Miss Louise Pfeiffer in connection with injuries suffered in an automobielie collision Nov 10, 1934.
Miss Green, a Port Arthur school teacher, was injured when Miss Pfeiffer's car in which she and the late Miss Beulah Floy Bledsoe were riding, met another automobile in a head-on crash two miles north of Nederland. Miss Pfeiffer also is a teacher in the Port Arthur schools.
The ijury found that just prior to the collision, Miss Pfeiffer drove her car in the left of the center of the highway in an attempt to pass an automobile headed in the same direcction.
Another finding of the jury was that although O.M. Cuniff of Sout Lake, driver with whom Miss Pfeiffer collided, was under the influence of intoxicating liquor, his intoxication was not the "sole prolmute crust" of the accident. Cuniff, last spring, was convicted in criminal district court of driving while drunk and was assessed a suspended sentence.
A second damage suit growing out of the collision is docketed for trial next week in 60th district court. Mrs. Ella Bledsoe of Port Arthur seeks $10,000 in damages for the death of Miss Bledsoe, her daughter and Port Arthur city librarian, in the wreck. The suit names Miss Pfeiffer as defendant.
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The Port Arthur News - "Cuniff Drunk Before Crash says Witness"
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Death |
06 Aug 1948 |
Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas |
- D.C. Ovia Mack Cuniff, Sr., age 46, widowed, born 05 Feb 1902 Texas; died 6 Aug 1948; buried 7 Aug 1948 at Magnolia. labor foreman, Gulf Oil Corp.
father, O.T. Cuniff, Texas; mother Ellen Frugia, Texas
died of skull fracture, died in Hotel Dieu at 9:00 a.m. automobile accident, Highway 90, 3 miles east of Beaumont.
informant, Loidene Cuniff, Beaumont, Texas (daughter)
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Burial |
07 Aug 1948 |
Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas |
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Magnolia Cemetery, Main Entrance 2291 Pine Street; Beaumont, Texas
Magnolia Cemetery History webpage
http://www.magnoliacemetery.org/index.asp?page=history
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Person ID |
I24831 |
Roots |
Last Modified |
3 Dec 2012 |
Family |
Mildred Sterling, b. 05 Jun 1908, Sulphur, Louisiana d. 30 Jul 1948, Houston, Harris Co, Texas (Age 40 years) |
Marriage |
1928 |
Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas |
Children |
| 1. Ovia Mack Cuniff, Jr., b. 22 Jul 1926, Hardin Co, Texas d. Aug 1972 (Age 46 years) |
| 2. Gloria Loidene Cuniff |
| 3. Norma Jean Cuniff, b. 4 Aug 1931, Ada, Pontotoc Co, Oklahoma d. 4 Apr 1932, Gladewater, Gregg Co, Texas (Age 0 years) |
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Family ID |
F8892 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
10 Feb 2011 |