MOTOR CAR HITS DOG AND JUMPS THE TRACKS AT NORTH BEND, OHIO
OSGOOD, IND., MARCH 10 - OUR COMMUNITY WAS GREATLY SHOCKED THURSDAY EVENING WHEN THE NEWS CAME OVER THE WIRE THAT MR. COLLIE EWING HAD BEEN KILLED AND THOMAS E. CARTER, EARL KELLEY AND LEE AIKINS SEVERELY INJURED IN A MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT NEAR NORTH BEND, OHIO.
THE MEN BELONGED TO THE SECTION FORCE THAT IS WORKING ON THE OLD GRAVEL PITS ON THE B&O S.W.
THEY WERE RETURNING TO NORTH BEND ON A MOTOR CAR WITH A TRAILER TO TAKE A TRAIN FOR THEIR HOMES, WHEN A DOG THAT WAS RUNNING AND BARKING AT THE SIDE OF THE CAR, SUDDENLY RAN IN FRONT. THE CAR HIT THE DOG AND JUMPED THE TRACK. THERE WERE 35 MEN ON THE CAR, MOST OF WHO JUMPED TO SAFETY. MR. EWING, WHO WAS SEATED BY THE DRIVER WAS CRUSHED BENEATH THE CAR. MEDICAL AID COULD NOT BE OBTAINED UNITL THEY REACHED AURORA.
MR. EWING WAS TAKEN IN CHARGE BY THE RAILROAD PHYSICIANS, BUT DIED IN A SHORT TIME.
MR. AIKINS, WHOSE LEG WAS CRUSHED AND ARM BROKEN, WAS TAKEN TO THE SETON HOSPITAL IN CINCINNATI WHERE HE DIED AT NOON SUNDAY.
MR. AIKINS, WHO LIVES IN DABNEY, LEAVES A WIFE ALTA AIKINS.
Versailles Republican,
Versailles, Indiana
Wed, Mar 12, 1919 - Page 1
HOW VARIABLY ARE WE REMINDED THAT IN THE MIDST OF LIFE, WE ARE IN DEATH AND THAT DEATH RIDES UPON US IN EVERY PASSING BREEZE.
FRANKIE LEE AIKINS, SON OF MARSHALL AND MARY E. AIKINS, WAS BORN NEAR DABNEY, INDIANA, FEB 13, 1876 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 9, 1919,
AGED 43 YEARS AND 26 DAYS.
HE WAS MARRIED TO ALTA BRUCE, NOV. 24, 1900. TO THIS UNION THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN, JUNIOR, GEORGIA AND CHARLES DEWARD, GEORGIA HAVING PRECEDED HIM TO THE OTHER SHORE.
HE WAS BORN AGAIN AND UNITED WITH THE POSTON BAPTIST CHURCH AT DABNEY, INDIANA, 1904, WHERE HE REMAINED A FAITHFUL MEMBER, ALWAYS READY AND WILLING TO DO WHATEVER HE COULD TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF GOD AMONG MEN, TIL THE MASTER SAID, "IT IS ENOUGH,
COME UP HIGHER."
HE WAS A MEMBER OF SANTEE TRIBE NO. 423 IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN, HOLTON, INDIANA.
LEE AIKINS WAS A GOOD CITIZEN, A CHRISTIAN MAN, A KIND AND AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND AND FATHER AND FAITHFUL FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR THAT WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.
HE LEAVES TO MOURN THEIR LOSS A HEART BROKEN WIFE, TWO SONS, FATHER, MOTHER AND TWO SISTERS AND A HOST OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
SOLDIER OF CHRIST, WELL DONE, REST FROM THEY LABOR, EMPLOY THOU BATTLES FOUGHT, THE VICTORY WON.
Versailles Republican
Versailles, Indiana
March 19, 1919
Category: Obituary/Death Record
OSGOOD, IND., MARCH 10 - OUR COMMUNITY WAS GREATLY SHOCKED THURSDAY EVENING WHEN THE NEWS CAME OVER THE WIRE THAT MR. COLLIE EWING HAD BEEN KILLED AND THOMAS E. CARTER, EARL KELLEY AND LEE AIKINS SEVERELY INJURED IN A MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT NEAR NORTH BEND, OHIO.
THE MEN BELONGED TO THE SECTION FORCE THAT IS WORKING ON THE OLD GRAVEL PITS ON THE B&O S.W.
THEY WERE RETURNING TO NORTH BEND ON A MOTOR CAR WITH A TRAILER TO TAKE A TRAIN FOR THEIR HOMES, WHEN A DOG THAT WAS RUNNING AND BARKING AT THE SIDE OF THE CAR, SUDDENLY RAN IN FRONT. THE CAR HIT THE DOG AND JUMPED THE TRACK. THERE WERE 35 MEN ON THE CAR, MOST OF WHO JUMPED TO SAFETY. MR. EWING, WHO WAS SEATED BY THE DRIVER WAS CRUSHED BENEATH THE CAR. MEDICAL AID COULD NOT BE OBTAINED UNITL THEY REACHED AURORA.
MR. EWING WAS TAKEN IN CHARGE BY THE RAILROAD PHYSICIANS, BUT DIED IN A SHORT TIME.
MR. AIKINS, WHOSE LEG WAS CRUSHED AND ARM BROKEN, WAS TAKEN TO THE SETON HOSPITAL IN CINCINNATI WHERE HE DIED AT NOON SUNDAY.
MR. AIKINS, WHO LIVES IN DABNEY, LEAVES A WIFE ALTA AIKINS.
Versailles Republican,
Versailles, Indiana
Wed, Mar 12, 1919 - Page 1
HOW VARIABLY ARE WE REMINDED THAT IN THE MIDST OF LIFE, WE ARE IN DEATH AND THAT DEATH RIDES UPON US IN EVERY PASSING BREEZE.
FRANKIE LEE AIKINS, SON OF MARSHALL AND MARY E. AIKINS, WAS BORN NEAR DABNEY, INDIANA, FEB 13, 1876 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 9, 1919,
AGED 43 YEARS AND 26 DAYS.
HE WAS MARRIED TO ALTA BRUCE, NOV. 24, 1900. TO THIS UNION THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN, JUNIOR, GEORGIA AND CHARLES DEWARD, GEORGIA HAVING PRECEDED HIM TO THE OTHER SHORE.
HE WAS BORN AGAIN AND UNITED WITH THE POSTON BAPTIST CHURCH AT DABNEY, INDIANA, 1904, WHERE HE REMAINED A FAITHFUL MEMBER, ALWAYS READY AND WILLING TO DO WHATEVER HE COULD TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF GOD AMONG MEN, TIL THE MASTER SAID, "IT IS ENOUGH,
COME UP HIGHER."
HE WAS A MEMBER OF SANTEE TRIBE NO. 423 IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN, HOLTON, INDIANA.
LEE AIKINS WAS A GOOD CITIZEN, A CHRISTIAN MAN, A KIND AND AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND AND FATHER AND FAITHFUL FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR THAT WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.
HE LEAVES TO MOURN THEIR LOSS A HEART BROKEN WIFE, TWO SONS, FATHER, MOTHER AND TWO SISTERS AND A HOST OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
SOLDIER OF CHRIST, WELL DONE, REST FROM THEY LABOR, EMPLOY THOU BATTLES FOUGHT, THE VICTORY WON.
Versailles Republican
Versailles, Indiana
March 19, 1919
Category: Obituary/Death Record
MOTOR CAR HITS DOG AND JUMPS THE TRACKS AT NORTH BEND, OHIO
OSGOOD, IND., MARCH 10 - OUR COMMUNITY WAS GREATLY SHOCKED THURSDAY EVENING WHEN THE NEWS CAME OVER THE WIRE THAT MR. COLLIE EWING HAD BEEN KILLED AND THOMAS E. CARTER, EARL KELLEY AND LEE AIKINS SEVERELY INJURED IN A MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT NEAR NORTH BEND, OHIO.
THE MEN BELONGED TO THE SECTION FORCE THAT IS WORKING ON THE OLD GRAVEL PITS ON THE B&O S.W.
THEY WERE RETURNING TO NORTH BEND ON A MOTOR CAR WITH A TRAILER TO TAKE A TRAIN FOR THEIR HOMES, WHEN A DOG THAT WAS RUNNING AND BARKING AT THE SIDE OF THE CAR, SUDDENLY RAN IN FRONT. THE CAR HIT THE DOG AND JUMPED THE TRACK. THERE WERE 35 MEN ON THE CAR, MOST OF WHO JUMPED TO SAFETY. MR. EWING, WHO WAS SEATED BY THE DRIVER WAS CRUSHED BENEATH THE CAR. MEDICAL AID COULD NOT BE OBTAINED UNITL THEY REACHED AURORA.
MR. EWING WAS TAKEN IN CHARGE BY THE RAILROAD PHYSICIANS, BUT DIED IN A SHORT TIME.
MR. AIKINS, WHOSE LEG WAS CRUSHED AND ARM BROKEN, WAS TAKEN TO THE SETON HOSPITAL IN CINCINNATI WHERE HE DIED AT NOON SUNDAY.
MR. AIKINS, WHO LIVES IN DABNEY, LEAVES A WIFE ALTA AIKINS.
Versailles Republican,
Versailles, Indiana
Wed, Mar 12, 1919 - Page 1
HOW VARIABLY ARE WE REMINDED THAT IN THE MIDST OF LIFE, WE ARE IN DEATH AND THAT DEATH RIDES UPON US IN EVERY PASSING BREEZE.
FRANKIE LEE AIKINS, SON OF MARSHALL AND MARY E. AIKINS, WAS BORN NEAR DABNEY, INDIANA, FEB 13, 1876 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 9, 1919,
AGED 43 YEARS AND 26 DAYS.
HE WAS MARRIED TO ALTA BRUCE, NOV. 24, 1900. TO THIS UNION THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN, JUNIOR, GEORGIA AND CHARLES DEWARD, GEORGIA HAVING PRECEDED HIM TO THE OTHER SHORE.
HE WAS BORN AGAIN AND UNITED WITH THE POSTON BAPTIST CHURCH AT DABNEY, INDIANA, 1904, WHERE HE REMAINED A FAITHFUL MEMBER, ALWAYS READY AND WILLING TO DO WHATEVER HE COULD TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF GOD AMONG MEN, TIL THE MASTER SAID, "IT IS ENOUGH,
COME UP HIGHER."
HE WAS A MEMBER OF SANTEE TRIBE NO. 423 IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN, HOLTON, INDIANA.
LEE AIKINS WAS A GOOD CITIZEN, A CHRISTIAN MAN, A KIND AND AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND AND FATHER AND FAITHFUL FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR THAT WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.
HE LEAVES TO MOURN THEIR LOSS A HEART BROKEN WIFE, TWO SONS, FATHER, MOTHER AND TWO SISTERS AND A HOST OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
SOLDIER OF CHRIST, WELL DONE, REST FROM THEY LABOR, EMPLOY THOU BATTLES FOUGHT, THE VICTORY WON.
Versailles Republican
Versailles, Indiana
March 19, 1919
Category: Obituary/Death Record
OSGOOD, IND., MARCH 10 - OUR COMMUNITY WAS GREATLY SHOCKED THURSDAY EVENING WHEN THE NEWS CAME OVER THE WIRE THAT MR. COLLIE EWING HAD BEEN KILLED AND THOMAS E. CARTER, EARL KELLEY AND LEE AIKINS SEVERELY INJURED IN A MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT NEAR NORTH BEND, OHIO.
THE MEN BELONGED TO THE SECTION FORCE THAT IS WORKING ON THE OLD GRAVEL PITS ON THE B&O S.W.
THEY WERE RETURNING TO NORTH BEND ON A MOTOR CAR WITH A TRAILER TO TAKE A TRAIN FOR THEIR HOMES, WHEN A DOG THAT WAS RUNNING AND BARKING AT THE SIDE OF THE CAR, SUDDENLY RAN IN FRONT. THE CAR HIT THE DOG AND JUMPED THE TRACK. THERE WERE 35 MEN ON THE CAR, MOST OF WHO JUMPED TO SAFETY. MR. EWING, WHO WAS SEATED BY THE DRIVER WAS CRUSHED BENEATH THE CAR. MEDICAL AID COULD NOT BE OBTAINED UNITL THEY REACHED AURORA.
MR. EWING WAS TAKEN IN CHARGE BY THE RAILROAD PHYSICIANS, BUT DIED IN A SHORT TIME.
MR. AIKINS, WHOSE LEG WAS CRUSHED AND ARM BROKEN, WAS TAKEN TO THE SETON HOSPITAL IN CINCINNATI WHERE HE DIED AT NOON SUNDAY.
MR. AIKINS, WHO LIVES IN DABNEY, LEAVES A WIFE ALTA AIKINS.
Versailles Republican,
Versailles, Indiana
Wed, Mar 12, 1919 - Page 1
HOW VARIABLY ARE WE REMINDED THAT IN THE MIDST OF LIFE, WE ARE IN DEATH AND THAT DEATH RIDES UPON US IN EVERY PASSING BREEZE.
FRANKIE LEE AIKINS, SON OF MARSHALL AND MARY E. AIKINS, WAS BORN NEAR DABNEY, INDIANA, FEB 13, 1876 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 9, 1919,
AGED 43 YEARS AND 26 DAYS.
HE WAS MARRIED TO ALTA BRUCE, NOV. 24, 1900. TO THIS UNION THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN, JUNIOR, GEORGIA AND CHARLES DEWARD, GEORGIA HAVING PRECEDED HIM TO THE OTHER SHORE.
HE WAS BORN AGAIN AND UNITED WITH THE POSTON BAPTIST CHURCH AT DABNEY, INDIANA, 1904, WHERE HE REMAINED A FAITHFUL MEMBER, ALWAYS READY AND WILLING TO DO WHATEVER HE COULD TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF GOD AMONG MEN, TIL THE MASTER SAID, "IT IS ENOUGH,
COME UP HIGHER."
HE WAS A MEMBER OF SANTEE TRIBE NO. 423 IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN, HOLTON, INDIANA.
LEE AIKINS WAS A GOOD CITIZEN, A CHRISTIAN MAN, A KIND AND AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND AND FATHER AND FAITHFUL FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR THAT WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.
HE LEAVES TO MOURN THEIR LOSS A HEART BROKEN WIFE, TWO SONS, FATHER, MOTHER AND TWO SISTERS AND A HOST OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
SOLDIER OF CHRIST, WELL DONE, REST FROM THEY LABOR, EMPLOY THOU BATTLES FOUGHT, THE VICTORY WON.
Versailles Republican
Versailles, Indiana
March 19, 1919
Category: Obituary/Death Record
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