Madison County IN Archives Obituaries.....Hendren, Sarah Jane 1922
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Elwood Call Leader, May31, 1922
AGED WOMAN IS FATALLY INJURED  
Spine of Mrs. Sarah Hendren of Perkinsville Broken in Accident Tuesday.
                    AUTO DOWN EMBANKMENT
Mrs. Sarah Jane Hendren, 75, a resident of Perkinsville was fatally injured 
and Paul Fuller of Anderson received minor injuries when an automobile plunged 
down a fifteen foot embankment at the Pipecreek bridge, one mile north of 
Perkinsville at 10 am.m. yesterday.
     A third passenger, a stepdaughter of Mrs. Hendren escaped injury by 
leaping from the automobile when it began the descent.
     The injured woman was taken in the ambulance to St. John's hospital, when 
it was learned that her spine was broken.  Dr. T. M. Jones, the attending 
physician, stated last night that Mrs. Hendren is almost completely paralyzed, 
and that she cannot recover.
    The party left Perkinsville enroute to the Carry cemetery to participate 
in the decoration of graves.  Fuller, who was driving the machine, was not 
familiar with the route to tbe taken, and failed to make a necessary turn.   
Upon being informed of his mistake, he attempted to turn the car around to 
gain the right road and it was while backing his car to the side of the road 
that the accident occurred.  The car, overturned three times in its 
precipation and allighted partially submerged in Pipecreek with the aged woman 
pinned beneath.  Fuller was thrown from the car as it overturned.
    Sulva Funk, a farmer residing north of Anderson, who was also enroute to 
the Carry cemetery, was a 
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