JOHN MONROE SUMMERLIN

Officer Rank: Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 53-W: 29
Department: Okaloosa County, Florida, S.O.
End of Watch: January 21, 1921
Cause: TRAIN
Age: 34
Years of Service: 3
Description: Sheriff Summerlin died in a train crash when his vehicle was struck by a passenger train as he attempted to cross the tracks. Sheriff Summerlin was transporting an elderly man judged insane by the court to the state mental facility when the incident occurred.
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