Reverend Luther Brinton Jeffcoat

1913

Reverend Luther Brinton Jeffcoat was born January 21, 1913, son of Martin Luther Jeffcoat and Mary Viola Smith Jeffcoat.

1939

L. Brinton Jeffcoat, 26, of West Columbia was instantly killed this morning when his car struck a pier of a Southern railroad underpass about three miles from West Columbia about 9:45 o’clock.

Mr. Jeffcoat was in the insurance business and a former pastor of the Union Baptist church near Blaney. He attended BRookland-Cayce school and the University of South Carolina.

Magistrate George Lybrand of West Columbia said that the car was traveling toward Columbia and hit the left tier of the underpass, bouncing completely across the road and hitting the opposite side of the structure.

Mr. Jeffcoat was traveling alone at the time of the accident. His car was demolished in the wreck.

A coroner’s jury was impanelled and Coroner W. Morgan Caughman, of Lexington said he would conduct an inquest.

Patrolman J. L. Jervey, Lieut. J. D. Townsend, and Sgt. J. W. Coleman of the South Carolina Highway department, investigated the accident.

The highway patrol office reported that two eyewitnesses of the accident had been found. The witnesses’ version of the wreck was that the driver must have gone to sleep or suffered a heart attack as the car had rammed into the concrete pillar on the wrong side of the road.

Mr. Jeffcoat is survived by his widow, Mrs. Corrie Atkerson Jeffcoat of West Columbia; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Jeffcoat of West Columbia; two sisters, Miss Mary Lee Jeffcoat of Wilson, N. C.; and Miss Elizabeth Jeffcoat of West Columbia, and six brother, Allen W. Jeffcoat fo the United States navy, and Alex Jeffcoat, Homer Jeffcoat, Thomas Jeffcoat and M. L. Jeffcoat, Jr., all of West Columbia.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon, November 8, 1939 from Brookland Baptist church by the Rev. T. A. Snyder, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Willie Cromer of Ninety-Six. Interment will be in Mt. Tabor cemetery. The body will remain at Thompson’s Funeral home until time for the services.

Pallbearers were to be Wilbur Lybrand, Frankie Rogers, Carl Heise, John Franklin Swygert, Wofford Bailington and Horace Corley.