Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hardman, James Alvin December 21, 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meredith Clapper http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002801 June 3, 2007, 7:28 am Atlanta Journal December 21, 1918 Young Hardman is electrocuted while fighting fire in Home. While trying to extinguish flames that had caught a corner of his home at 74 Richardson St. where the insulation of a telephone wire had worn off. Alvin Hardman, 18 years old, an employee of the Government in the reclamation division of the Ford Plant was electrocuted shortly after seven o'clock Saturday morning. According to his father, John T. Hardman, the young man rushed to extinguish the fire with a hand full of wet grass which he seized in the yard. He died his father said immediately after coming in contact with the wire. Mr. Hardman said that several passersby witnessed the accident. Young Hardman is survived by his father, one brother, Glenn; Four sisters; Misses May, Grace, Ruby and Evelyn. His mother died last March. Atlanta Journal December 22, 1918 Hardman Friends of Mr. James Alvin Hardman, Mr. John T. Hardman, Mr. John Glenn Hardman, Misses May, Grace, Evelyn and Ruby Hardman are invited to attend the funeral of Mr. James Alvin Hardman this Sunday afternoon at 12:45 o'clock from the residence, 74 Richardson Street. The following gentlemen will please serve as pallbearers and meet at the residence at 12:30 o'clock: Lieutenant Myers, Mr. Edwin Akin, Mr. Hal Morris, Mr. Tom Whatley, Mr. John Bell and Mr. J F Edens, Jr. Rev. W W Majors will officiate. Interment Stone Mountain Cemetery, Barcley and Brandon in charge. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/fulton/obits/h/hardman9900ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb