Tipton-Shelby County TN Archives Deaths.....Williams, Herman Green September 6, 1940
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Name:                williams, herman green
Date Of Death:       September 6, 1940 Time: 1:30 pm
Place Of Death:      dupont powder company millington, tenn.
Residence:           covington, tenn.
Gender:              Male
Race:                W
Age:                 44
Marital Status:      Married
Spouse:              sanders, dellie emma
Date Of Birth:       September 17, 1895
Place Of Birth:      covington, tenn.
Mother's Name:       unknown, josie
Mother's Birthplace: covington, tenn.
Father's Name:       williams, a.g.
Father's Birthplace: covington, tenn.
Cause Of Death:      multiple fractures of skull, and lacerations of brain
Hospital:            Unavailable
SS Number:           Unavailable
Occupation:          carpenter
Funeral Home:        maley's funeral home,      j.j. collins
Doctor:              seeley n. gray
Coroner:             Unavailable
Informant:           maley's funeral home
Date Of Burial:      September 8, 1940
Place Of Burial:     charleston cemetery near covington, tenn.
Date Recorded:       April 1, 2007
Source Of Record:    shelby county death certificate, commercial appeal
Certificate No.:     state file no. 505,    registrar  no. 463

commercial appeal (memphis, tn.) 9-7-1940

WORKER DIES IN FALL AT NEW POWDER PLANT. HENRY (HERMAN)G. WILLIAMS IS FIRST 

FATALITY ON PROJECT.

First major casualty in connection with construction of the Tennessee Powder 

Co. plant near Millington came yesterday afternoon when a platform hoist on 

which Henry (Herman)G. Williams of Covington was working fell to the ground and 

killed him instantly. He was 44. Mr. Williams was an employee of the Fulcher & 

Poyner Co., contractors. The platform was being used in brick laying work on 

one of the powder plant structures and had been raised to a height of about 40 

feet when the hoist failed, company officials said. He received multiple skull 

fractures. Company doctors, on the scene almost immediately, found him already 

dead. Previously there had been only one serious accident, a broken leg, since 

the project was started. The body was brought to Memphis in a Collins 

ambulance. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

Additional Comments:
all inserts of story were added by myself where the newspaper had mispronounced 

his name. also according to Herman's WW1 draft card He has written his 

birthdate as 1896 not 1895 as stated in his death certificate.

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