Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 19, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 April 1949 — Hebron Man Caught Under Car, Succumbs [ARTICLE]

Hebron Man Caught Under Car, Succumbs

S. H. Evans Loses Life At Farm Home Last Evening; Crushed When Jack Slips Stephen Harvey Evans, farmer residing one mile south of Hebron in Porter county, and well known throughout northern Jasper county, was injured fatally between five and seven o’clock Sunday evening when he was caught beneath his automobile. Officers theorized that Mr. Evans had jacked up the front of the car to work beneath it and that he was either crushed or strangled to death after the jack slipped and let the car fall on his neck. He was lifeless when found. The death of the popular farm operator came as a great shock to the many residents of two counties in which he was so well known. Included among the survivors is a brother, John Howard Evans, of DeMotte. Mr. Evans was born October 10, 1895, a son of Jean P. Evans and Alice (French) Evans. He was married in 1939. Surviving besides the widow, Helen, aie two atfep-ciuldxen, Mrs. Bonnie Lou Johnson of Hebron and Wilson Leo Harland, who is in military service in Tennessee; three brothers, Paul Evans of Hebron, Jean Donald Evans of Fair Oaks and John Howard Evans of DeMotte, and two sisters, Mrs. Lois Merle Lace of Davis Junction, 111., and Mrs. Grace Woolridge of Lowell. The funeral services were conducted from Hebron Methodist church at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon with the Rev. Howell officiating. Burial was at Hebron cemetery.