(Information contributed by Karen Phillips #46884884)
The Lexington Herald
Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky
7 December 1929
Saturday
Page 7
TRUCK CRUSHES LAD
J.W. Holderfield Fatally Hurt in Accident Near La Grage
[Special to the Herald]
LA GRANGE, Ky., Dec. -- J.W. Holderfield, of Buckner, a freshman in the Crestwood High School, met with an accident Thursday afternoon which caused his death three hours later. He and some of his schoolmates were waiting for the 3 o'clock interurban car to La Grange. While waiting, they were snowballing, and in his play, the Holderfield boy ran into a truck loaded with furniture belonging to Dave Hampton and driven by a chauffeur named Armstrong. The boy fell under the rear wheel, the truck running over him, crushing his abdomen. He was taken by a friend in an automobile to the office of Dr. Sams of Crestwood, and later removed to the Pewee Valley sanitorium. A surgeon was summoned from Louisville, but the boy died at 6 o'clock before he arrived.
The lad is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Holderfield, who liver near Buckner; one brother, Harold Holderfield, a student at the University of Kentucky; four sisters, Misses Mary Helen, Frances, Celia, and Ida Margaret Holderfield, two of whom are high school pupils at Crestwood, and the other two are grade pupils at Buckner school.
(Information contributed by Karen Phillips #46884884)
The Lexington Herald
Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky
7 December 1929
Saturday
Page 7
TRUCK CRUSHES LAD
J.W. Holderfield Fatally Hurt in Accident Near La Grage
[Special to the Herald]
LA GRANGE, Ky., Dec. -- J.W. Holderfield, of Buckner, a freshman in the Crestwood High School, met with an accident Thursday afternoon which caused his death three hours later. He and some of his schoolmates were waiting for the 3 o'clock interurban car to La Grange. While waiting, they were snowballing, and in his play, the Holderfield boy ran into a truck loaded with furniture belonging to Dave Hampton and driven by a chauffeur named Armstrong. The boy fell under the rear wheel, the truck running over him, crushing his abdomen. He was taken by a friend in an automobile to the office of Dr. Sams of Crestwood, and later removed to the Pewee Valley sanitorium. A surgeon was summoned from Louisville, but the boy died at 6 o'clock before he arrived.
The lad is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Holderfield, who liver near Buckner; one brother, Harold Holderfield, a student at the University of Kentucky; four sisters, Misses Mary Helen, Frances, Celia, and Ida Margaret Holderfield, two of whom are high school pupils at Crestwood, and the other two are grade pupils at Buckner school.
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