Death in Railroad Collision
Samuel Spencer's career was cut short when he was killed at the age of 59 in a train collision in Virginia on November 26, 1906. According to Southern Railway: Green Light to Innovation, Spencer and some companions were sleeping in car parked on a siding while on a hunting trip in Virginia south of Lynchburg. The parked car was struck by a train which was on the wrong track. After his death the employees of the Southern donated funds to produce and erect a statue in his honor. The statue was sculpted by noted sculptor Daniel Chester French who also did Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. The Spencer statue is now located in front of the Norfolk Southern Building at 1200 Peachtree St. Atlanta, GA.
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