Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....Thornhill, Phillip October 3, 1936
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Breckinridge Herald News; unknown date
19-YEAR-OLD YOUTH ACCIDENTLY KILLED
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Phillip Thornhill Accidentally Shot While On Hunting Trip Last Saturday.

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Phillip THornhill, 19, son of the later Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thronhill (should be
Thornhill) was found shot to death near Locust Hill last Monday morning after he
failed to return from a hunting trip Saturday.  Phillip left home Saturday and said
he would not be home that night, but would stay with an aunt, failed to return
Sunday and his grandmother, Mrs. James Allen, with whom he lived became uneasy and
early Monday a searching party started out and found the boy's body on a tract of
land back of the Frank Davis farm.  A double barrel shotgun was found nearby with
one barrel having been fired.  The shot entered the body in the right side of the
chest.  R. T. Dowell, coroner, was called and the verdict of the jury was accidental
death.

After being shot, Phillip had evidently tried to reach the house on the Davis farm
occupied by a Mr. Carman, as the indications were that he was headed that way by a
trail of blood between where the body lay and where the shotgun was found.  Burial
was in the Allen cemetry near Locust Hill Monday afternoon.  He is survived by his
grandmother and two brothers.



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