Alton Wayne Byrd was the son of Walter Lee & Bertie Lorene Adams Bird. Wayne was seventeen years old and approaching his senior year in high school at Madison County High, when his motorcycle ran head-on into a large drink truck in a curve near the old dairy barn on Old Big Cove Road. He died hours later from his injuries.
Traffic Injuries Fatal to Boy, 17
Gurley Pupil Succumbs At Hospital In Spite
Of Use of Iron Lung
An effort to save the life of a young traffic accident victim with the iron lung from the Fire Department was made here yesterday afternoon, but Alton Wayne Byrd, 17, died at 3:20 p.m. at the Huntsville Hospital. He suffered a fractured skull and other injuries early yesterday morning in a head-on collision with a truck on County Road 61, which leads into Big Cove off of Highway 431, South.
When the young man's condition took a turn for the worse yesterday afternoon and his breathing was affected, city firemen rushed the iron lung to the hospital, but its use was unable to prevent his death. The young man was a pupil at Madison County High School, Gurley, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lee Byrd [sic], Route 1, Owens Cross Roads.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. (DST) Friday at the Big Cove Holiness Church and interment will be in Neal's Cemetery with Spry Funeral Home in charge.
Surving besides the parents are three brothers, J.W., Sammy and Ronald Byrd at home; five sisters, Mrs. James E. Cowan of Huntsville, Mrs. William Knight of Chattanooga, Jane, Phyllis, and Nancy Byrd, all at home.
Huntsville Times, May 23, 1957
Traffic Injuries Fatal to Boy, 17
Gurley Pupil Succumbs At Hospital In Spite
Of Use of Iron Lung
An effort to save the life of a young traffic accident victim with the iron lung from the Fire Department was made here yesterday afternoon, but Alton Wayne Byrd, 17, died at 3:20 p.m. at the Huntsville Hospital. He suffered a fractured skull and other injuries early yesterday morning in a head-on collision with a truck on County Road 61, which leads into Big Cove off of Highway 431, South.
When the young man's condition took a turn for the worse yesterday afternoon and his breathing was affected, city firemen rushed the iron lung to the hospital, but its use was unable to prevent his death. The young man was a pupil at Madison County High School, Gurley, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lee Byrd [sic], Route 1, Owens Cross Roads.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. (DST) Friday at the Big Cove Holiness Church and interment will be in Neal's Cemetery with Spry Funeral Home in charge.
Surving besides the parents are three brothers, J.W., Sammy and Ronald Byrd at home; five sisters, Mrs. James E. Cowan of Huntsville, Mrs. William Knight of Chattanooga, Jane, Phyllis, and Nancy Byrd, all at home.
Huntsville Times, May 23, 1957
Alton Wayne Byrd was the son of Walter Lee & Bertie Lorene Adams Bird. Wayne was seventeen years old and approaching his senior year in high school at Madison County High, when his motorcycle ran head-on into a large drink truck in a curve near the old dairy barn on Old Big Cove Road. He died hours later from his injuries.
Traffic Injuries Fatal to Boy, 17
Gurley Pupil Succumbs At Hospital In Spite
Of Use of Iron Lung
An effort to save the life of a young traffic accident victim with the iron lung from the Fire Department was made here yesterday afternoon, but Alton Wayne Byrd, 17, died at 3:20 p.m. at the Huntsville Hospital. He suffered a fractured skull and other injuries early yesterday morning in a head-on collision with a truck on County Road 61, which leads into Big Cove off of Highway 431, South.
When the young man's condition took a turn for the worse yesterday afternoon and his breathing was affected, city firemen rushed the iron lung to the hospital, but its use was unable to prevent his death. The young man was a pupil at Madison County High School, Gurley, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lee Byrd [sic], Route 1, Owens Cross Roads.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. (DST) Friday at the Big Cove Holiness Church and interment will be in Neal's Cemetery with Spry Funeral Home in charge.
Surving besides the parents are three brothers, J.W., Sammy and Ronald Byrd at home; five sisters, Mrs. James E. Cowan of Huntsville, Mrs. William Knight of Chattanooga, Jane, Phyllis, and Nancy Byrd, all at home.
Huntsville Times, May 23, 1957
Traffic Injuries Fatal to Boy, 17
Gurley Pupil Succumbs At Hospital In Spite
Of Use of Iron Lung
An effort to save the life of a young traffic accident victim with the iron lung from the Fire Department was made here yesterday afternoon, but Alton Wayne Byrd, 17, died at 3:20 p.m. at the Huntsville Hospital. He suffered a fractured skull and other injuries early yesterday morning in a head-on collision with a truck on County Road 61, which leads into Big Cove off of Highway 431, South.
When the young man's condition took a turn for the worse yesterday afternoon and his breathing was affected, city firemen rushed the iron lung to the hospital, but its use was unable to prevent his death. The young man was a pupil at Madison County High School, Gurley, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lee Byrd [sic], Route 1, Owens Cross Roads.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. (DST) Friday at the Big Cove Holiness Church and interment will be in Neal's Cemetery with Spry Funeral Home in charge.
Surving besides the parents are three brothers, J.W., Sammy and Ronald Byrd at home; five sisters, Mrs. James E. Cowan of Huntsville, Mrs. William Knight of Chattanooga, Jane, Phyllis, and Nancy Byrd, all at home.
Huntsville Times, May 23, 1957
Bio by: Byrdman of Big Cove
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