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Obituary of Lewis Adin Wilhoit

Thursday, 31 July 1941, Kansas (IL) Journal

Light Truck, Driven by Wife, Runs in Ditch 1 1/4 Miles
East of Clarksville Early Wednesday Morning--Funeral Will
Be Held on Friday


Lewis Adin Wilhoit, 24-year-old son of Mrs. Dorothy
Wilhoit, was fatally injured in an automobile accident
early Wednesday morning about 1 1/4 miles east of
Clarksville, Clark county.  He was still alive when picked
up by the Benny Marrs ambulance of Marshall, but died
while enroute to that city.

Mrs. Wilhoit and Lawrence (Bud) Herrintton, also occupants
of the Wilhoit light truck, were not seriously injured.
Mrs. Wilhoit received a cut on on eye-lid which required
nine stitches, and bruises about the body.  Herrington
escaped with only slight abrasions.

The trio had spent the evening with Mrs. Wilhoit's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan Hughes, near Marshall.
From there they went on a swimming party, and after taking
a friend of Lawrence's home, were returning to Kansas.  At
the time of the accident, Mrs. Wilhoit was driving the
car.  On the gravel road a short distance east of
Clarksville, a car from the west loomed up before them,
crowded them off the road, and in order to avoid a
collision, Mrs. Wilhoit drove into the ditch, the car
turning over and pinning Lewis Adin beneath it.  He was
severely crushed about the chest.

The accident occurred about 2 a.m. but it was not until
about 5 o'clock that the first passerby--Robert Wilson, of
Marshall--came along.  He summoned the Benny Marrs
ambulance from Marshall and assisted in removing the
injured from the scene.  Wilhoit was still breathing when
picked up but died while enroute to Marshall.  Mrs.
Wilhoit and Herrington were treated at the office of a
Marshall physician.

Mr. Wilhoit's body was first taken to the Marrs funeral
home in Marshall and after the inquest was brought to the
Forbes-Hutchins funeral home here to be prepared for
burial.

An inquest was held Wednesday morning in Marshall by the
Clark county coroner, the jury returning a verdict of
accidental death as the result of injuries suffered in the
accident.  Lawrence Herrington was the only witness to
testify at the inquest.

Lewis Adin Wilhoit, son of the late R. A. Wilhoit and Mrs.
Dorthy Wilhoit, was born May 1, 1917, on the farm where he
had lately resided, one and a half miles south of Kansas.
He attended the Kansas grade and high school.  On May 23,
1940, he was married to Miss Dorothy Louise Hughes of
Marshall, who survives, together with his mother, one
sister, Mrs. John Newell, Charleston, and his grandmother,
Mrs. Eva Wilhoit.

The funeral will be held at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon in
the home of Mr. Wilhoit's mother, Mrs. Dorothy Wilhoit.

Rev. H. L. Hayes, pastor of the Paris Christian Church,
will be in charge of the service.  Bearers will be Charles
Templeton and Harry Figenbaum, Neoga; Wayne Saxton, Calvin
Cook, Laurence Herrington, and Truman Moore.

Interment will follow in Fairview cemetery.

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