Robeson County NcArchives News.....Powers, Clyde V. 1921
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Robesonian – Mon 9/19/1921 1921
Mr. Clyde V. Powers Loses Arm in
Cotton Gin.
 
   Mr. Clyde V. Powers of R. 1, Lum-
berton, had his right arm so badly
cut up in a cotton gin Saturday morn-
ing that the arm had to be amputated
at the shoulder.  The accident happen-
ed at Mr. J. I. Paul’s gin, near Sad-
dletree church.  He was working at
some seed while a bale of his cotton
was being ginned when his arm was
caught by the gin saws.  Mr. Powers
was brought to the Thompson hospi-
tal, where the arm was amputated. 
He is a young married man.

Additional comments:  Clyde V. Powers was the youngest son of John Hector Powers 
and his first wife Martha Virginia Smith Powers, of Powersville, Robeson Co NC.

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