Columbus-Robeson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Waddell Jr., Eugene Jennings December 21, 1929 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Steven Hinson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00032.html#0007748 August 8, 2013, 6:36 am The Robesonian, December 23, 1929 Lumberton, NC Monday EUGENE WADDELL KILLED AT FAIR BLUFF BY CAR – AUTO PLUNGES INTO YARD AND KILLS 12-YEAR-OLD BOY – THIRD DEATH IN FAMILY IN MONTH Fair Bluff. Dec. 21. – Eugene Waddell, 12, son of the late Jennings Waddell was killed instantly early this afternoon by an automobile driven by Millard Powell, Whiteville negro, while the lad was playing in the yard of the Waddell home. The death car is said to have left route 202, ploughed through a hedge and into the yard striking the youth and breaking his legs and neck and fracturing the skull. A younger brother, Raymond, was also slightly injured. A coroner’s jury ordered Powell held and he was immediately carried to the county jail at Whiteville. The death of the lad is the third in the Waddell family in a month’s time. His father Jennings Waddell and grandfather John P. Waddell both passing during the week of Thanksgiving. Funeral services were conducted from the home Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Rev. Freeman Heath, pastor of the Methodist church, assisted by the Rev. F. T. Wooten, pastor of the Baptist church. Deceased was a nephew of Dr. M.A. Waddell of Lumberton. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/columbus/obits/w/waddellj3353gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb