Union City Times-Gazette,Sat., Jan. 22,1949
Tragey Again Strikes In Mills Family--Boy, 17,Killed When Crushed Under Tractor
Tragey again has struck the Chester D. Mills family, former resident of Randolph county now living on a farm near Albany.
Around 8 a.m. Saturday the body of their 17-year-old son, Wallace, was found crushed beneath a tractor just a few miles from his home.
A little more than three weeks ago his eight-year-old sister, Oneida Gay,was killed by a motorist as she alighted from a school bus in front of her home in Delaware county.
According to reports young Mills was enroute to the family's farm home, southwest of Winchester, to get a load of corn, two wagons hitched behind the tractor, a Farmall- H. Apparently the tractor left the road and plunged down an embankment,pinning the youth beneath the wreckage and crushing him to death.
The accident accurred about a quarter mile south of the intersection of state roads 1 and 28 on 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Sumwalt,of Farmland,were driving down the road and noticed the overturned tractor and wagons. When they stopped to investigate, they saw the body of the Mills boy beneath the tractor.
Dr. John Lansford, of Redkey was called and found the boy dead on arrival. The body was taken to the Summers funeral home in Winchester.
The Mills family moved from Randolph county about a month ago. They had lived on the Ella Martin farm, a half mile south of the county barn on the Huntsville road.
Dr. Lowell W. Painter,county coroner, who examined the body after it was brought to Winchester reported that the Mills boy had a badly broken left arm and a fracture at the base of the skull.
Survivors in addition to the parents are two sisters, Ireda Fay and Vivian;two brothers, Dale and Arvin,all at home, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stauffer of Ridgeville.
(Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at the Maxville church. Burial was made in the adjoining cemetery.)
Tragey Again Strikes In Mills Family--Boy, 17,Killed When Crushed Under Tractor
Tragey again has struck the Chester D. Mills family, former resident of Randolph county now living on a farm near Albany.
Around 8 a.m. Saturday the body of their 17-year-old son, Wallace, was found crushed beneath a tractor just a few miles from his home.
A little more than three weeks ago his eight-year-old sister, Oneida Gay,was killed by a motorist as she alighted from a school bus in front of her home in Delaware county.
According to reports young Mills was enroute to the family's farm home, southwest of Winchester, to get a load of corn, two wagons hitched behind the tractor, a Farmall- H. Apparently the tractor left the road and plunged down an embankment,pinning the youth beneath the wreckage and crushing him to death.
The accident accurred about a quarter mile south of the intersection of state roads 1 and 28 on 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Sumwalt,of Farmland,were driving down the road and noticed the overturned tractor and wagons. When they stopped to investigate, they saw the body of the Mills boy beneath the tractor.
Dr. John Lansford, of Redkey was called and found the boy dead on arrival. The body was taken to the Summers funeral home in Winchester.
The Mills family moved from Randolph county about a month ago. They had lived on the Ella Martin farm, a half mile south of the county barn on the Huntsville road.
Dr. Lowell W. Painter,county coroner, who examined the body after it was brought to Winchester reported that the Mills boy had a badly broken left arm and a fracture at the base of the skull.
Survivors in addition to the parents are two sisters, Ireda Fay and Vivian;two brothers, Dale and Arvin,all at home, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stauffer of Ridgeville.
(Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at the Maxville church. Burial was made in the adjoining cemetery.)
Union City Times-Gazette,Sat., Jan. 22,1949
Tragey Again Strikes In Mills Family--Boy, 17,Killed When Crushed Under Tractor
Tragey again has struck the Chester D. Mills family, former resident of Randolph county now living on a farm near Albany.
Around 8 a.m. Saturday the body of their 17-year-old son, Wallace, was found crushed beneath a tractor just a few miles from his home.
A little more than three weeks ago his eight-year-old sister, Oneida Gay,was killed by a motorist as she alighted from a school bus in front of her home in Delaware county.
According to reports young Mills was enroute to the family's farm home, southwest of Winchester, to get a load of corn, two wagons hitched behind the tractor, a Farmall- H. Apparently the tractor left the road and plunged down an embankment,pinning the youth beneath the wreckage and crushing him to death.
The accident accurred about a quarter mile south of the intersection of state roads 1 and 28 on 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Sumwalt,of Farmland,were driving down the road and noticed the overturned tractor and wagons. When they stopped to investigate, they saw the body of the Mills boy beneath the tractor.
Dr. John Lansford, of Redkey was called and found the boy dead on arrival. The body was taken to the Summers funeral home in Winchester.
The Mills family moved from Randolph county about a month ago. They had lived on the Ella Martin farm, a half mile south of the county barn on the Huntsville road.
Dr. Lowell W. Painter,county coroner, who examined the body after it was brought to Winchester reported that the Mills boy had a badly broken left arm and a fracture at the base of the skull.
Survivors in addition to the parents are two sisters, Ireda Fay and Vivian;two brothers, Dale and Arvin,all at home, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stauffer of Ridgeville.
(Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at the Maxville church. Burial was made in the adjoining cemetery.)
Tragey Again Strikes In Mills Family--Boy, 17,Killed When Crushed Under Tractor
Tragey again has struck the Chester D. Mills family, former resident of Randolph county now living on a farm near Albany.
Around 8 a.m. Saturday the body of their 17-year-old son, Wallace, was found crushed beneath a tractor just a few miles from his home.
A little more than three weeks ago his eight-year-old sister, Oneida Gay,was killed by a motorist as she alighted from a school bus in front of her home in Delaware county.
According to reports young Mills was enroute to the family's farm home, southwest of Winchester, to get a load of corn, two wagons hitched behind the tractor, a Farmall- H. Apparently the tractor left the road and plunged down an embankment,pinning the youth beneath the wreckage and crushing him to death.
The accident accurred about a quarter mile south of the intersection of state roads 1 and 28 on 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Sumwalt,of Farmland,were driving down the road and noticed the overturned tractor and wagons. When they stopped to investigate, they saw the body of the Mills boy beneath the tractor.
Dr. John Lansford, of Redkey was called and found the boy dead on arrival. The body was taken to the Summers funeral home in Winchester.
The Mills family moved from Randolph county about a month ago. They had lived on the Ella Martin farm, a half mile south of the county barn on the Huntsville road.
Dr. Lowell W. Painter,county coroner, who examined the body after it was brought to Winchester reported that the Mills boy had a badly broken left arm and a fracture at the base of the skull.
Survivors in addition to the parents are two sisters, Ireda Fay and Vivian;two brothers, Dale and Arvin,all at home, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stauffer of Ridgeville.
(Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at the Maxville church. Burial was made in the adjoining cemetery.)
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