Fulton County IN Archives Photo Tombstone.....Sebring, Clement K 
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Cemetery:           Akron IOOF/Akron Cemetery
Name:               Clement K Sebring

Date Of Photograph: October 2011
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Nov.24,1906
July 4,1926 

NW Sect. Row 3

Additional Comments:
Tuesday, July 6, 1926

Clement SEBRING, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. James SEBRING of Akron, died at 9:30 
Sunday night in Woodlawn hospital from a fractured skull which he received in 
an automobile accident at the Lake Manitou Fair Association race track at 6:15 
p.m. Sunday. Sebring was turning his mount, a Moline Special, owned by Carl 
FOSTER of North Manchester, in preparation for the races to be held on the 
half-mile oval on the Fourth. It was on the third lap of a trial, the second 
lap of which Sebring was clocked at .32, that the accident occurred. The 
driver had just come out of the west turn with his machine when he went 
through the wire fence, breaking two posts and continued east for a distance 
of 100 yards and crashed into the west bleachers.
The accident it was determined later was caused by the dropping off of a ball 
and key holding the steering wheel on the steering post which loss rendered 
the driver powerless to control his machine. Better servicing at the pits 
would have prevented the accident.
The blow which caused Sebring's deathwill always remain a mystery. Some 
persons who saw the accident contend that one of the fence posts when broken 
flew through the air and struck the fatal blow while others swear that the 
blow which Sebring received on the head when he crashed into the bleachers 
caused his death. Luckily because of the nearness to the supper hour no 
persons were along the wire fence when Sebring went through as there had been 
throughout the afternoon.
Following the accident Sebring was taken to the Woodlawn hospital by fellow 
drivers. There an X-ray picture showed many fractures of the skull. One over 
the left eye it is believed caused his death. Sebring's parents who were 
summoned from Akron were at his bedside when he died. The unfortunate 
automobile race driver had been a professional driver but two months, but 
during this period he had participated in five meets. His daring had won for 
him many firsts.
Clement Sebring was born in Kosciusko county near Silver Lake on November 24, 
1906. He had spent his entire life in Akron and Silver Lake. Sebring, who was 
a mechanic, was employed at the HATTERY and SECOR garage in Akron. He is 
survived by his parents and a sister, Helen [SEBRING], aged 13. The funeral 
will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon from the Akron Christian church 
with Rev. W. C. ASCHANHORT in charge. Burial will be made in the Akron 
I.O.O.F. cemetery. The Akron Woodmen lodge of which organization the deceased 
was a member will be in charge of the services.

 

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