Barbara Leggett Shumate
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Sergeant

Barbara Leggett Shumate

Accident
End of Watch June 13, 2008
Age 49
Tour of Duty 10 yrs
Gender Female

Incident

Sergeant Barbara Shumate was killed in an automobile accident when her department pickup truck hit the rear of a dump truck that was stopped in the 400 block of FM Road 2821 in Walker County, Texas.

Sergeant Shumate had served with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division for 10 years.

Survivors

She is survived by her son, daughter, and mother.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Sergeant Shumate gave the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntsville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Shumate.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Type Corrections
Location Huntsville, Walker County, TX
Platform Identity tdcjcidcorr.walker.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 13, 2008
Tour of Duty 10 yrs
Age 49
Gender Female

Incident Details

Cause Accident

The Sacrifice · Accident

Barbara is one of 8,276 officers lost to accidents in the United States, 30% of the 27,552 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 2008, 69 officers in the United States were lost to accidents, the 51st heaviest of 174 years on record. The heaviest was 1929, with 118.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Barbara was 49. Of the 7,718 lost to accidents in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 29 and 46; the middle age was 36. Barbara had served 10 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

Age at death
Where she stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

June holds 7.9% of these deaths in the United States; August holds the most, 9.4%. Fridays: 15.1%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Accident deaths account for 30% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the 2nd most common cause.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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Her people

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division has at least 120 officers remembered here, Barbara among them.

Across the years
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Where

Sergeant Barbara Leggett Shumate

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division · End of Watch June 13, 2008

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 13-E

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