S. Cherry St. railway crossing: Photo by Henry Hill. Courtesy of Tennessee State Library and Archives - Used with Permission
Joe Jacobs was a fireman for the NC&St.L Railway. He was 32 years old. It is not known which train he was working on, but he would have been working near the boiler at the time of the collision.

Joe Jacobs was married and he was born in Kentucky.

He died of injuries sustained in the Dutchman's Curve railroad accident. William Templeton, who lived at 509 4th Avenue North, in Nashville Tennessee claimed Mr. Jacobs body from undertakers Wilkerson and Company on July 11, 1918. Joe Jacobs was buried in Hickman Kentucky.