This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: LauraDonohue46 Surnames: kellison Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.saintlawrence/7019.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The funeral for Mrs. Violet J. Versailles, 70, was held Saturday at the Sprague Funeral Home, Gouverneur, with Rev. Stanley E. Brown, pastor of the United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Oxbow Cemetery. Mrs. Versailles was pronounced dead on arrival Tuesday afternoon, April 3, 1979 at Mercy Hospital, Watertown, following a two car crash on route 11 north of Evans Mills which injured six other persons. Admitted to the intensive care unit at the House of the Good Samaritan were the dead woman's granddaughter and husband, Sally Burns. 3 and Joseph R Versailles, 73. The child was in a coma with cuts and bruises on her brain and lung bruises. Mr. Versailles underwent surgery for a fractured right leg. He also suffered multiple cuts, scrapes and bruises. Also hospitalized were Mrs. Patricia D. Burns, 26, Rossie, Sally's mother, who underwent surgery at Mercy Hospital for a fractured hip; her older daughter, Linda, 5 in stable condition at the House of the Good Samaritan with a concussion and cut eye brow; John P. Reis, 29, Gouverneur, in good condition at the same hospital with a concussion and bruised eye; and William J. Young, 17, Gouverneur, listed as stable by Mercy Hospital with a fractured pelvis and bruised kidney and bladder. The injured persons were rushed to Watertown by Philadelphia and Evans Mills Ambulance crews, which had to labor to remove Young and Mrs. Burns from the wreckage of the two cars. Deputies said Reis was driving south on Route 11 when his car was struck on the right side by the northbound vehicle driven by Mrs. Burns at 12:56 p.m. with the collision apparently occurring in her lane. Young, who was riding with Reis, told deputies that Reis had pulled out to past another vehicle, then upon seeing the northbound car, was unable to pull back into his lane. Deputies listed improper passing by Reis as the contributing factor of the accident. Evans Mills firemen were called to the scene, at the intersection, ?ne Road, to wash down gasoline. Both cars were demolished. Besides her husband and daughter Patricia, Mrs. Versailles is survived by two sons, William Fuller, Taylor Mich., and Franklin Versailes; and five daughters, Mrs. Delbert (Jeanette) Wylie, Gouverneur; Mrs. Edward (Joan) Mack, Charleston, S.C., Mrs. Charles (Shirley) Burns, Antwerp, Mrs. Robert (Bonnie) Hall, Oxbow, and Mrs. Allen (Cecilia) McCall, Gordon, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Versailles lost a son, Joseph Jr., in 1965 when, at age 20, he died after an appendectomy, and in 1971, Mrs. Versailles' son by a former marriage, Donald A. Fuller, died at age 47. In December, 1972, the couple's grandson, Charles Jr., 10,son of Charles H. Burns, and their daughter Shirley died after a prolonged illness resulting from a degenerative kidney condition. Mr. and Mrs Versailles and their children were burned out of a home on the Antwerp-Oxbow Road in March 1962. She was born in the Town of Pitcairn, June 9, 1908, daughter of Franklin and Inez Durham Kellison. Following the death of her first husband, George Fuller, she was married to Joseph Versailles July 8, 1933. The couple had lived at Philadelphia for the past 14 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.