OBIT: Hilda (Sander) EMERICK and son, James EMERICK, 1940, of interest in 
Somerset County, PA

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HILDA and JAMES EMERICK

Auto Crashes Rear of Buggy
Mother and Child Dead as Result of Saturday Night Accident

  When an automobile crashed into the rear of a buggy, Saturday night, on Route 
220 in Bedford County, Mrs. Hilda Emerick, 17-year-old wife of Charles Emerick, 
Buffalo Mills, R.D. 1 farmer, and their six-months old son were fatally injured.
  Mrs. Emerick died at 1 a.m. Sunday in the Allegheny Hospital, Cumberland, Md., 
the result of a fracture of the skull.  Her infant son, James Emerick, suffered 
a concussion of the brain and died in the Cumberland Hospital, Wednesday 
morning.  The husband and father, Charles W. Emerick, 29, escaped with minor 
injuries.
  Glenn Shiner of Madley, driver of the car, told investigating state motor 
policemen of the Bedford substation that the Emerick buggy was traveling without 
lights and he failed to see the horse-drawn vehicle in time to avoid collision 
with it.
  An inquest has been scheduled at Bedford Saturday morning, March 2. Meanwhile 
Shiner has been released under his own recognizance, pending the outcome of the 
inquest.
  State motor police said the accident happened along a rural route about 10 
miles south of the Lincoln Highway and six miles north of Hyndman about 6:30 or 
6:45 Saturday evening.  Both the buggy and the auto were preceeding in a 
southerly direction to Hyndman.
  The car was believed to have crashed into the rear of the buggy.  Mrs. Emerick 
and the baby boy, whom she held in her lap, were thrown from the buggy by the 
impact.
  Shiner and passing motorists took the injured woman and child to the 
Cumberland hospital.  Mrs. Emerick died about 4 hours later from a possible 
fracture of the skull, major lacerations of the face and body and possible 
internal injuries.
  Mrs. Emerick was a daughter of A. W. and Hazel (Ritenour) Sander and was born 
May 11, 1922, in Fayette County.  Surviving are her parents, now residing in 
Hyndman; her husband; and these brothers and sisters: Roy Sander, Latrobe R.D. 
1; Ray Sander, Cumberland, Md.; Pearl, Billie, Glenn, Robert, Betty and Edna 
Sander, all at home.  Mrs. Emerick was a member of the Evangelical Church at 
Hyndman.
  Funeral services for Mrs. Emerick were conducted at 2 o'clock Tuesday 
afternoon at the Harvey Zeigler Funeral Home in Hyndman by Rev. George Bittner, 
pastor of the Hyndman Pentecostal Church.  Interment was in the Palo Alto 
Cemetery, located five miles south of Hyndman.
  Services for the child were held this (Thursday) afternoon.

Meyersdale Republican, February 29, 1940