Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1919 — MOROCCO MAN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

MOROCCO MAN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT.

Albert Grant, a well known citrizen of Morocco, was killed in an automobile accident near Paulding, 0., Sunday, September 28, and his wife was seriously and is I now in a dangerous condition. The Newton County Enterprise gives the following account of the (accident: Mr. and Mrs. Grant, accompanied by their son and daughter, the former about nineteen years of age, and the latter about twenty-one, had been to Niagara Falls, and were on their way home. At 11 o’clock Sunday morning when near Paulding they met an approaching car directly at a smalt culvert with open, unguarded—ends. Theapproaching car Had to pull to the* ceuter of the road to make the culvert, and then pulled to the side of the road again. The son was driving the Grant car. The daughter was also in the front seat and Mr. and Mrs. Grant were in the rear seat. Young Grant did not see the culvert and in order to prevent a collision with the other car pulled to the side and the two side wheels of their car dropped off the edge of the culvert, but the momentum of the car carried them across. However, the drop of the wheels was sufficient to throw Mr. and Mrs. Grant high above the seat and the car went out from under them. Mr. Grant lit on his head on the stone road and died an hour later. Mrs. Grant suffered a broken arm and was badly cut and injured about the head ana rendered unconscious. The son and daughter were not hurt. The father and mother were taken into Paulding, and the remains of Mr. Grant were prepared for shipment home, arriving in Morocco Tuesday. Mrs. Grant was placed in a hospital, and Monday. The daughter, Miss Vera Grant, accompanied by Earl Kessier and Miss Eva Kessler, returned to Paulding Monday evening and wired home that there was some improvement in Mrs. Grant’s condition, but she was not considered out of danger. . Funeral services over the remains of Mr. Grant were held yesterday afternoon, a number attending from this place. Mr. Grant was a good citizen and stood high in the community in which he had resided for many years. Mrs. Grant is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Biesecker, and a cousin of A. L. Smart, Mrs. Harry Ross arid Mrs, Elam StimSon, of this place. “ ——=