Sumter-Taylor County GaArchives News.....Prominent Americus Couple in Auto Wreck On Route Three Saturday December 8, 1927
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The Butler Herald December 8, 1927
Mrs. Evan Mathis, prominent society woman of Americus, sustained serious 
internal injury, Saturday morning when the Chrysler roadster in which she was 
riding turned over after leaving the road on a ten-foot fill on the Upson 
county approach to the Flint river bridge on route three. Her husband, whoe is 
president of the Americus Kiwanis Club,and who accompied her received only 
minor injuries.
The couple were enroute to Atlanta to attend the football game when the 
accident occurred. A loose mud chain on one of the front wheels is said to 
have locked the car causing the accident. Many who saw the damaged car say it 
was one of the ugliest accidents that has ever occurred in this section and a 
miracle that both the occupants were not instantly killed. The accident 
occurred without the slightest warning, Mr. Mathis said and was entirely 
unavoidable, and while the car was being driven at a moderate speed.
The injured were taken to Thomaston to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julian 
Hightower, where their wounds were given medical attention and where they 
remained until Monday when Mrs. Mathis' condition caused her removal to the 
Wesley Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and where she is still under the care of 
eminent physicians with some hopes as to her recovery.
Mrs. Mathis is the daught of R. L. McMath, president of Americus Oil Company, 
and one of the most highly esteemed women of Americus, whose friends deeply 
sympathize with her and her husband in their misfortune.

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