Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....POWELL, Benjamin Duncan "Dunk" January 20, 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy Russell meemawpeg7@gmail.com April 9, 2021, 12:51 pm Hardinsburg Leader Newspaper, January 1913 OBITUARY DUNK POWELL Killed at Glen Dean Monday Falling From His Horse -- Neck Broken -- Well Known Man ___________ The body of Dunk POWELL was found on the road Monday evening about 1/2 mile from Glen Dean by Dr. P. E. Dempster. The neck was broken, and death had occurred probably two hours before the body was found at 7:30 o'clock. A coroner's jury was summoned by Justice B. A. Whittinghill, and after an examination, it was declared that death had resulted from being thrown from his horse. It was thought when the body was found, that death had resulted from foul play at the hands of someone, but on examination, no bruses or injuries were found except a dislocation of the vertabre at the base of his skull. Dunk was last seen at Glen Dean about 3 o'clock in the afternoon when he went away in company with D. B. CLARK. The body was taken to the home of his parents at Glen Dean, and his family notified of the accident. He was in Hardinsburg in company with his father Monday morning, leaving here on the noon train. He was about 35 years of age, and leaves a wife and several children -- Additional Comments: #0291 Dunk and Raily Powell Cemetery/also known as the Powell Family Cemetery, locates on Highway 702, near Glen Dean, Ky in southern Breckinridge County. POWELL, Benjamin Duncan "Dunk" 26 Sep 1873 -- 20 Jan 1913 husband of Jessie Mida MAXWELL Wed: 26 Jan 1896 Breckinridge County, Ky son of Francis Marion POWELL & Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" ASHLEY have his death certificate have his obituary he has a single tombstone POWELL, Jessie Mida 19 May 1880 -- 23 Sep 1956 wife of Benjamin Duncan "Dunk" POWELL daughter of David M. MAXWELL & Lucy Alice CARWILE Jessie has a tombstone at the Dunk & Raily Powell Cemetery, but she is not buried there. She left Ky about 1941, and moved with her daughter to Bloomington, Illinois, in McLean County, and here is where she is buried: East Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery & Mausoleum, Bloomington, Illinois she has a flat, single tombstone: Jessie M. POWELL May 19, 1880 -- 23 Sep 1856 Peggy Russell File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/breckinridge/obits/p/powell11745gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/