Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Herbert, Leo A. September 10, 1926
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Sentinel-Std. - Monday, Sept. 13, 1926

12-YEAR-OLD-IONIA BOY IS KILLED
Leo Herbert Falls from Fender of Gravel Truck, Is Crushed by Heavy Load.

Leo Herbert, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Herbert 556 Cyrus street, 
died late Saturday while being rushed to a doctor's office, after he had been 
run over by a Ford truck loaded with gravel. The accident happened on State 
street,  north of Lincoln avenue and Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Salter, who were 
passing, took the boy into their car and hurried him to the offices of Dr. 
Marsh and McCann, where it was found he was dead.

Leo had been riding on the truck with Tom Moore, 17, of Ionia, and Robert Leet, 
19, of Belding, where using to haul gravel from South Ionia to North street. 
Several trips had been made, according in the statements made to the sheriff by 
Leet and Moore, the Herbert lad accompanying them in the cab. On the last trip 
the boy got out after apples and instead of getting back in the cab, sat on the 
fender, holding on to the cab with one hand, and eating apples. Both Moore and 
Leet saw the lad when he fell from the fender, and felt the bump when the rear 
right wheel passed over him. they hurried toward a telephone, but the passing 
automobile offered the quickest aid and Moore took the injured boy in it. 

Complete statements were made to Sheriff Henry J. Cook by both Moore and Leet. 


b. 13 July 1914 Ionia
son of Alfred Herbert & Arletta C. (Mayers)


Additional Comments:
Age: 12 yrs.
Funeral: Sept. 1926
Highland Park cemetery #11-219

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