Clay County AlArchives News.....Hassell Family Tragedy  February 2, 1927
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Our Mountain Home February 2, 1927
In a little green house at the top of the hill on West Street there lies a woman 
of forty-six summers, in her bed, sobbing, grief-stricken and broken of body and 
mind, as the aftermath of one of the most tragic accidents in the annals of 
Talladega. 
Saturday afternoon the husband of Mrs. A. Scott (Lula) Hassell died of injuries 
received in an automobile accident near the first of the new year. He had 
lingered between life and death for near three weeks before finally being called 
away.
The widow was prostrated with grief with the loss of the husband but was 
fortunate in having the consolation of a mother, an ardent brother and several 
children, including one from Birmingham. 
The remains were carried to Providence, Clay County, where they were interred 
the flowers, songs and prayers of the loved ones and gently put to rest for the 
last time beneath the bosum of Clay County. 
Returning from the sad scene, the car carrying the mother, brother, son, went 
into a ditch and dropped 15 feet into a dry creek bed, killing the brother, and 
fatally injuring the other two. 
The widow, who had returned home ahead of the fatal automobile, began worrying 
about the safety of the others when they failed to arrive on time.
Upon questioning, the news was told her, as best possible, that three had met 
with an accident, but the injuries were unknown. Little by little, she gathered 
the meaning, her brother was dead. The next day her son, and Tuesday morning her 
mother had passed quietly away. And Tuesday morning Mrs. Hassell lies broken, 
grief-stricken and almost to the point of hysterics, those close to her 
administering as much as possible, but with little success of making her burden 
any lighter.
For in three days she has lost the earthly sight of a husband, mother, brother 
and son, and can only hope and know that she will meet them again someday in the 
veiled beyond, for at a little plot of ground that received the body of her 
husband Sunday, the body of her son was placed Tuesday morning. And at another 
place, in the church yard of the Mount Olive church, near Ashland, the mother's 
remains had been laid beside those of her sons who was received into the grave 
Monday.

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