Obituaries: Kenneth Paul Edwards, 1931, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 12, 1931 Winn Parish Enterprise

Child Killed By Explosion, Buried At Sardis

Kenneth Edwards, Age 3, Killed When Child Lights Match Near Gas Drum

Victim of gasoline blast set off by a little girl playmate, Kenneth Paul
Edwards, 3, succumbed at a Gladewater, Texas hospital at 9:30 o'clock Thursday
night, four hours after he had been severely injured when a drum of gasoline
exploded at the Dixie Tourist Campo, Gladewater, Texas.

Half a dozen other children playing around the drum of gasoline escaped
serious injury, but the little six year old girl who is said to have struck
the match, sustained painful eye injuries.  The blast crashed a hold in the
wall of the Hughes Hotel, 30 feet away, and sprayed gasoline over the tourist
camp.

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Edwards, residents of Gladewater Tourist Camp and formerly
of Atlanta, are parents of the victim.  The father is an oil field worker. 
The body was brought to Sardis, La., near Atlanta for burial.  Mr. W. C.
Edwards of Atlanta is the paternal grandfather.