Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Culpepper, Minnie Sue April 1917
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The Butler Herald, April 12, 1917
The Butler Herald
Thursday, April 12, 1917
Page One

Americus Child Killed By Auto

Americus, April 8 –

While walking on the sidewalk at the intersection of Lee and Furlow Streets this
afternoon, Sarah Margarette Culpepper, aged 11, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles A. Culpepper, was instantly killed, and her sister, Minnie Sue, aged 3,
is in critical condition from injuries received when the car of Mrs. Burt
Bowers, driven by her companion, Mrs. Jerry Mugivans, swerved into the sidewalk.

Mrs. Mugivans was learning the mechanism of the car when coming down Lee Street,
she attempted to turn into Furlow Street.  By some manner she lost control of
the car, running upon the sidewalk at the street intersection.

The little girls who were with their mother attempted to run out of the way of
the car, it is stated, but the older child was caught directly in the path,
being thrown for several feet and before the machine could be stopped, the left
front wheel had passed over her chest.

Witnesses to the accident state that the younger child was caught by the running
board of the machine, being thrown partially under the rear wheel, which passed
over the right arm, crushing it in several places.

Charles A. Culpepper, father of the children, an engineer on the Seaboard Air
Line railway between here and Savannah, was on his return trip home.  He was
advised of the accident at Helena, where he was relieved.

Certain parties who witnessed the accident stated that the car driven by Mrs.
Mugivans was running between fifteen and twenty miles an hour.

Mrs. Mugivans, at the Windsor Hotel, is prostrated with grief over the accident.

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The second child in the awful auto accident of Sunday died Wednesday.


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