The Monroe News-Star - Mrs. Hyde Dies in Runaway Accident Date: Dec. 1999 Submitted by: Lora Peppers ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Monroe News-Star Saturday, August 20, 1910 Page 1, Column 6 Meets Death in Runaway Accident Montgomery, La., Aug. 20.-Tuesday evening, about 6 o'clock, while Mrs. Dow Wardlow, wife of the cashier of the Bank of Montgomery, was driving with her little daughter and grand-mother, Mrs. Hyde, the horse became frightened at the report of a gun near by and ran away. The buggy was overturned, throwing the occupants out. Mrs. Wardlow and baby escaped with but little injury, but Mrs. Hyde died yesterday from injuries received from the fall. Mrs. Hyde was the mother of fourteen children, and grandmother and great-grandmother of about one hundred and thirty children, many of whom are the most prominent business men of North Louisiana. She was a native of Rockford, Ala., and moved to this place in the early fifties, where she had continuously resided. She was 78 years old. # # #