Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Dallas Morning News; Oct. 5, 1932;  Section: I; Page: 16

Bolt in Wheel Breaks, One Dead, One Injured

  WACO, Texas, Oct. 4 (AP) - Lynn Chadwell, 21, of Wortham, was instantly killed
and D. B. Baxter, a local bakery employe[e], was injured Tuesday near Elk when
a bakery truck overturned in a ditch following the breaking of a front wheel
spindle bolt.  Chadwell was a former football player at Wortham High School.
Baxter is in a local hospital with painful bruises. His condition is not
considered serious.
 
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Corsicana Daily Sun, October 5, 1932; Page 1

Wortham Youth 
  Killed In Auto 
    Crash Tuesday 
  WORTHAM, Oct. 1 - [Sp] - Lynn Chadwell, 21, Wortham high school graduate and 
football player, was almost instantly killed and his companion, D. B. Baxter of 
Waco, was injured when they lost control of the car they were driving and it went
into a ditch near Elk, on the Palestine-Waco highway on Tuesday afternoon.  Baxter 
is said to be in a Waco hospital.
   Funeral services were planned to be held from the First Baptist, Wortham, at 
4 o'clock this afternoon, with Rev. George Jerrens officiating and burial 
following in the Wortham Cemetery.  
   The dead youth is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chadwell, and 
three brothers, Rex, Standley, and Max, all of Wortham.  
   Chadwell was said to be working for a Waco concer, and was riding in that 
city on a truck with Baxter when the accident occurred. Details of the accident
were not learned.