Schley-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Brock, Edna October 20, 1940 ************************************************ 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: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 October 11, 2006, 9:33 am The Ellaville Sun Friday, Oct. 25, 1940 No. 19 GIRL, 9, KILLED IN AUTO CRASH Nine-year-old Edna Brock of Putnam was instantly killed and five other members of her family were painfully injured in an automobile accident in front of the R.L. LeSuer residence on Ellaville-Americus highway Sunday afternoon about 3 o'clock. Newton Brock, 45-year-old lumberman and father of the child, said the accident was caused by a dog leaping from the front seat to the floor of the car. The automobile ran some distance along the side of the road, struck a culvert and rammed into a tree. Mrs. Brock, 24, stepmother of the victim, and Pearl Brock, 12, her sister, were seriously injured. Mr. Brock, Mae Brock, 8, and Sam Brock, 7, were painfully hurt. All were reported improving yesterday. Funeral services for Edna were conducted from Friendship Baptist church in Sumter county Tuesday with the Rev. W.A. Joyner officiating. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/obits/b/brock5500gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb