Sheriff Felix Cullman Graham

Felix Cullman Graham

Sheriff Felix Graham succumbed to injuries sustained in a single-vehicle crash on November 10th, 1955, while en route to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

He was scheduled to meet a sheriff's deputy from Rome in Chattanooga before traveling to Ohio to take custody of a man wanted for murder in Georgia. He was attempting to pass another vehicle on Route 11, approximately 2-1/2 miles north of Trenton when his car went out of control and struck a utility pole. He suffered severe head injuries and died as a result on November 21st, 1955.

Sheriff Graham was survived by his wife, three sons, and two daughters.