Lincoln County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Hedgepeth, Edward David April 1931



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The Ruston Leader, Wednesday, April 29, 1931
The Ruston Leader, Wednesday, April 29, 1931 (front page)
Victim Will Be Buried At Two O’Clock Today; Funeral Services Will Be Held At 
Choudrant Baptist Church; From Thursday’s Daily)
	Funeral services of E. D. Hedgepeth, age 32, assistant superintendent 
of Lincoln Parish road construction who was killed at eleven o’clock Wednesday 
morning when a piece of dynamite exploded as he was attempting to relight it 
on a road job between Hico and Dubach where scheduled to be held from the 
Baptist church at Choudrant at two o’clock this afternoon with the Rev. W. P. 
Carter, pastor and the Rev. F. D. Bachman in charge.
	Hedgepeth had placed six pieces of dynamite under stumps and had 
lighted the fuse, but when one of them did not explode he went to investigate 
and reached the fuse just as it exploded. His body was brought to the local 
undertaker where Dr. W. S. Rutledge parish coroner pronounced is death as 
accidental.
	The victim was a native of Lincoln Parish and since his marriage to 
Miss Sarah Sanderson of Choudrant had made his home with her father who is W. 
A. Sanderson, police jury member from Ward Four.
	Surviving him, besides his wife, are a three week old infant child, 
his father Will Hedgepeth; two brothers, George, who is in Central America; J. 
C., operator of a sawmill in Lincoln Parish and three sisters, Mrs. L. Wise of 
Minden, Mrs. G. Gibson and Miss Daisey Hedgepeth.
	Interment will be made in the St. Rest Cemetery under the direction of 
B. F. McLure local undertakers with the following pallbearers:
	Active: Fred Duggan, Jessie Dugan, Byrant Duggan, Hal Harrison, Andy 
Harrison, Bill Harrison; Honorary: Add Thompson, Bill Deloney, Andy Colvin, 
Dr. H. M. Harper, Glover Meyers, Carl Reece, B.D. Lomas, and Bert Lomax, Grady 
Kelley, H. T. Burnside and Dr. F. D. Lydall of Choudrant.


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