Butler County AlArchives Obituaries.....Wilson Nall, Mrs. Minnie May 10, 1937
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The Red Level Journal, Red Level, Alabama, Thursday, May 13th, 1937
YOUNG MOTHER BURNS TO DEATH IN FLAMING CAR
Husband and Others Unable to Extricate Mrs. Minnie Nall From Wreckage

A young Molino, Fla., mother was burned to death, her two-year-old son was 
seriously hurt and three others lay painfully injured following an accident in 
which an automobile overturned and burst into flames near Gonzalez, Fla., 
Monday afternoon.

The husband, Robert Nall, 32, sobbed out details of the tragedy in the county 
jail where he had been taken for emergency treatment.  He said they were 
coming to Pensacola for a family gathering when the right front tire blew out 
on a sharp curve at Roberts.

Nall said the car careened and turned on one side, pinning his 26-year-old 
wife, Mrs. Minnie Wilson Nall, beneath. She died while Nall and other 
passengers made futile efforts to remove her from the burning machine, Nall 
said.

Child Seriously Hurt
The child, Marcus Nall, was taken to Molino by passing motorists.  Officers 
said he was in serious condition.  Sidney Loftin, driver of the car, and Grady 
Wilson, brother of Mrs. Nall, suffered painful burns about the face.

Loftin was docketed at the county jail for reckless driving and released under 
his own recognizance pending the report of a coroner’s jury summoned by Peace 
Justice J.L. Bryant.

"She was lying on her stomach begging for help," Nall cried Monday night.  "We 
tried to turn the car over, but couldn't on account of the flames.

"You don't know how it feels to see your darling wife dying in front of your 
eyes when you can't do anything to help her.  I can just hear her screaming 
there, begging me to help when I couldn't," he mourned. "She looked at me so 
pitifully."

"The doctors must save my baby," he said.

Nall's hair and eyebrows were singed as were those of other survivors.  All 
suffered multiple burns on the face and forearms.

Rescue Near As Fire Spreads
Deputies Ernest Harper and H.E. Gandy, Jr., who investigated said the 
survivors had almost succeeded in removing Mrs. Nall from the flaming wreckage 
when gasoline from the carburetor apparently ignited and spread where the 
gasoline tank had been emptied, driving back rescuers.  First pinned at about 
the middle of her body, Mrs. Nall had been practically extricated.  She was 
still held fast, however, by one foot under the heavy Buick sedan.  Her body 
was burned to ashes.

Nall said he first saw a spark under the dashboard but before a minute had 
elapsed the entire automobile was in flames.  All except Mrs. Nall were pulled 
from the car by a passing motorist, E.Y. Morgan. 

The party was en route to the home of Oscar Nall, a brother of the widower, 
who resides at LaRua and H Streets, Pensacola, where they were to have 
visited.  Both Nall men were married to sisters in the Wilson family.

Surviving Mrs. Nall are her husband and son; two sisters, Mrs. Irene Nall, of 
Pensacola and Mrs. Jesse Pough, of Molino; four brothers, Grady, Ransom, 
Barney and Albert Wilson, and her mother, Mrs. Caniss Wilson, of Molino.

Funeral services were conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Little Flock Church 
with interment in the Little Flock cemetery near Molino with Fisher-Pou 
directing.  Elder Davis conducting the service. ---Pensacola Journal

The above article will be of interest to many friends of Mrs. Nall in Butler 
County.  In addition to the survivors named above are the following half 
sisters and half brothers in Butler County: Mrs. R.L. Shell, Mrs. E.C. Shell, 
Mrs. Lon Lowery, Mr. Jim Wilson, Mr. Zack Wilson, Mr. Henry Wilson and Mr. 
Matt Wilson.

The entire family has the deepest sympathy of all in their great loss. 














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