Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....Cox, Bessie Helen June 10, 1947
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The Brunswick News; Tuesday 10 June 1947; pg. 1 col. 1

ACCIDENT IS FATAL TO 3-YEAR OLD GIRL—Mother Standing in Front Door When Truck 
Hits Her Daughter.

	A mother stood in the front door of her brick war apartment at 3533 
Gordon Oaks, between Albany and Amherst streets, this morning and almost 
witnessed the horrible death of her pretty little three-year-old daughter, who 
war run over by a milk truck only a few yards from where she stood.
	The victim of the unfortunate accident was little Bessie Helen Cox, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Cox.
	A mil truck of the Blackerby Dairy, driven by Johnnie Kiff, had 
stopped in front of the Cox apartment, and the driver went to the door and 
talked with Mrs. Cox concerning milk deliveries.  Little Bessie Helen and 
three or four other children, including Harris[?] Cox, her 10-year-old 
brother, were playing around the apartment.  The driver steeped back into his 
truck and started off.  His view was obscured by the front of the vehicle.  
The little girl evident had run in front of the truck and was not seen by the 
driver or her mother.  As Mr. Kiff started the truck he felt it run over 
something.  The little brother, and another playmate, Harris O’Connor, 12, 
standing nearby, saw the accident and screamed, and this attracted the 
attention of Mrs. Cox.
	The front left wheel of the truck passed over the little girl’s head, 
badly crushing it, and she died almost instantly.  The driver declared he had 
not observed the child run in front of the truck nor did he see her until 
after the wheel had passed over her head.  The little playmates also said they 
did not notice she was in front of the truck.  The accident was investigated 
by Police Office [sic] Copeland.
	The driver is not being held, but Coroner J.D. Baldwin arranged to 
hold an inquest this afternoon.
	Mr. Cox, father of the child, is in Palatka, Fla.  He was at once 
notified and is now enroute to the city and funeral arrangements, in charge of 
the Gibson-Hart Funeral Home, have not been made pending his arrival.

The Brunswick News; Wednesday 11 June 1947; pg. 8 col. 5

FATAL ACCIDENT WAS UNAVOIDABLE

	A coroner’s jury which yesterday afternoon investigated the accident 
in which little 3-year-old Bessie Helen Cox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.W. 
Cox, lost her life, returned a verdict that it was an unfortunate, unavoidable 
accident.
	The little girl was run over in front of the family apartment at 3533 
Gordon Oaks by a milk truck driven by Johnny Kiff, and the jury exonerated him 
of any blame for the accident.

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