Ovia Mack Cuniff, Sr.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 10 Nov 1934, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

Other-Begin:
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.



Died:
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)

Ovia married Mildred Sterling in 1928 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. Mildred (daughter of Roy S. Sterling and Mary Bertran) was born on 05 Jun 1908 in Sulphur, Louisiana; died on 30 Jul 1948 in Houston, Harris Co, Texas; was buried on 30 Jul 1948 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Between 1947 and 1960, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Birth:
Name: Ovia Mack Cuniff
Date of Birth: 22 Jul 1926
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hardin
Father's Name: O M Cuniff
Mother's Name: Mildred Sterling
Roll Number: 1926_0002


Residence:
1960
Cuniff Mary L Mrs slswn West Bros of Sulphur LA r 1230 Sherwood (S)
Cuniff Ovia M. Jr. (Mary L) emp Olin Mathieson h 1230 Sherwood (S)
Cunniff Milton D (Betty L) mech Carr Truck Service h 413 1/2 W Elizabeth (S)


Died:
Name: Ovia Cuniff
SSN: 438-20-8937
Born: 22 Jul 1926
Died: Aug 1972
State (Year) SSN issued: Louisiana (Before 1951)

Ovia married Mrs. Mary L. (..) Cuniff [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
D.C.
Norma Jean Cuniff
born Aug 4 Ada, Oklahoma
death date not entered - cert filed 3/31/1935
1 yr old died of gastroenteritis

father: O.M. Cuniff Sabine Texas
Mother: Mildred Sterling, Beaumont
informant. O.M. Cuniff - Gladewater, Texas
burial - Port Arthur
undertaker: W.M. Chrisman, Gladewater, TX

Name: Norma Jean Cuniff
Death Date: 4 Apr 1932
Death County: Gregg
Certificate: 61691-A