Obituary of Henry Hardy Crum (d. 1950), Crawfordville, Wakulla Co., Florida

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Wakulla County News, Friday November 3, 1950
Crawfordville, Florida

Hardy H. Crum Dies In Accident Friday Afternoon Oct 28th

Uncle Hardy Crum, 91 of Sopchoppy dies in the Tallahassee Memorial
Hospital at 4:35, Friday afternoon after being struck by a fish truck,
driven by Madison K. Goodman of Eastpoint, local commercial fisherman,
one half mile east of Sopchoppy on US 319, at 2:30 Friday afternoon.

Highway Patrolman, Jack Dorsey and chief deputy sheriff E. C. Ferrell Jr.
immediately investigated the accident and later Judge A. L. Porter and
Sheriff Ferrell investigated the accident and the scene and the relatives
requested that no charges be preferred as it was absolutely unavoidable.

The tragedy occurred when the aged Crum left his son's home, Rufus Crum,
supposedly to go to Sopchoppy and he was struck when he walked too far
out on the road. He was old and had poor eyesight.

Mr. Crum was born in the state of Illinois and came to Wakulla county
when he was six years of age and has been a resident of the county ever
since. He was a retired commercial fisherman, highly respected and
admired by his hundreds of friends.

Funeral services were conducted for Mr. Crum Sunday afternoon at
three o'clock in the Green Roberts Cemetery just over in Franklin County.
Rev. Theo Thompson officiated at the graveside with Culley and Sons of
Tallahassee in charge of the funeral arrangements.

Crum is survived by seven sons, J. H., G. W., H. A., Lloyd, Andy, Rufus, and
Leon all of Wakulla county; four daughters, Mrs. Carrie Crews of Sopchoppy,
Mrs. Alma Metcalf of Panacea, Mrs. Annie Lee Brown of Chattahoochee.

We all join in extending our deepest sympathies to the bereaved love ones.

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Note: Henry Hardy Crum, my great-granduncle, was in the 1860 Wakulla County
census shown as age 3 months. The earliest member of the family to show up 
in the census was James H. Crum in 1830.