Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Barnes, Robert B. April 25, 1925
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Ionia County News - Thursday, April 30, 1925

LEAPS TO DEATH FROM BUGGY AS HE FEARS DANGER

Robert Barnes, 40, Portland Township Resident, Victim of Accident Sunday

TRANSPORT TRUCK DRIVEN BY BOY, 16

Inquest: Exonerates Owner of Truck; Funeral Held On Tuesday Morning

Robert Barnes, 40 Portland township resident, was killed last Saturday at 
midnight when he leaped from a buggy in which he was riding into the path of 
an auto transport body truck, driven by Scott Holloway, 16, Portland youth. 
Barnes feared the truck would strike the rig and decided to jump and at the 
same time the truck swung out to avoid the buggy and he was struck, 
sustaining internal injuries. Death occurred near Eagle as he was being 
hurried to St. Lawrence hospital at Lansing.

The tragedy occurred in front of the Frank Pryer farm on the cement pavement 
on M-16, two miles southeast of Portland. Barnes was riding back of the 
buckboard on a one-seated buggy, and Mrs. Nellie Brown and her daughter, 
Helen, 13, who were on the front seat.

As Barnes struck the pavement from his leap the truck's fender struck him in 
the abdomen. He was conscious and did not appear to have been fatally hurt 
when taken to Dr. R.W. Alton's office by Floyd Reed and Arthur Balderson. 
His demise came suddenly as he would cry out that he was dying by inches. 

The truck was owned by Arthur DeVries of Grand Rapids, who had Scott 
Holloway of Portland and Donald Ames as occupants. He had given them a ride 
from Toledo, and owing to his lack of sleep, allowed the Holloway boy to 
drive.

A coroner's inquest at Portland on Monday afternoon impaneled by Coroner 
Mathew Bradley returned a verdict as an accident unavoidable. Leon McVeigh 
was the foreman.

The funeral was held on Tuesday morning from the home of Herbert Barnes, a 
brother. Barnes was the son of late N.B. Barnes, Jr. His mother now lives in 
Portland, There are three brothers and one sister, Alton and Herbert Barnes, 
Mrs. John Marolff, Portland, and William Barnes of Lyons.


Additional Comments:
Age: 40
Funeral: Tuesday, 28 April 1925
Portland cemetery - B2-#72


Ctf. b. June 11, 1884 - age 40y 10m 14dy
son of Nepolean. Barnes & Margaret (Esch) 

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