JAYNE RITES HELD SUNDAY
Large Crowds Attend Funeral of Gun Victim
Funeral
services were held Sunday for Joe Jayne at Old Union Church at
Staffordsville. One of the largest crowds ever seen at a funeral was
present for the funeral and burial. Services were in charge of Rev. F.
F. Rigsby, Rev. Winfrey Meek and other ministers of the United Baptist
Church. Jayne was fatally shot at Paintsville Saturday, April 4, 1936,
by Harry Adams, ex- Sheriff of Johnson County, and died at the Golden
Rule Hospital on Saturday, April 11, one week after the shooting.
Before his death Jayne professed faith in the Christian religion and was
converted. He told members of the family he did not fear death and was
ready to go. Mr. Jayne is survived by his father and mother, several
brothers and sisters, a wife and a number of children. Funeral
arrangements were in charge of the Mountain Furniture Company. Burial
was made in the family cemetery at Staffordsville.
Paintsville Herald Thursday April 16, 1936