Lela and Lloyd Lincoln

LINCOLN, TERHUNE

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 12/13/2018 at 09:00:16

16 August 1928 - West Branch Times

A very serious accident occurred in front of the E. L. Crew residence just east of town at about nine o'clock on Saturday night. The Lloyd Lincoln family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln and their five children were walking to town from their home just one mile east of town, when they were struck by an automobile.

Winford and Donald Mather and Harold Olsen of Springdale were coming to town in a Ford coupe and met another car just as they reached this point. Blinded by the approaching car lights and the cloud of dust they failed to see the little family until they were upon them and crashed into the little group.

Lela, 5, and Lloyd, 10, were killed almost instantly. Mr. Lincoln suffered a broken right leg and was otherwise injured.

Verlene, 8, and Wilbur, 3, were also injured. Mrs. Lincoln and the babe were uninjured.

Minard Thomas, assisted by the Mather and Olsen boys, brought the injured to town. After first aid had been administered Mr. Lincoln was taken to the hospital at Iowa City. The two injured children were taken to the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Terhune, in town. The little boy, Wilbur, has a broken left leg and he is terribly scratched and bruised, and his sister, Verlene, is bruised and scratched and as yet no internal injuries have developed.

The coroner's jury met Monday morning and delivered the following verdict: We, the undersigned jurors of inquisition holden at West Branch, Iowa, in adjourned session of August 11, 1928, do find that the aforesaid bodies of one Lloyd Lincoln and one Lela Lincoln, (unreadable) at about 9:00 p.m., on August 11, 1928, by being struck by a Ford coupe driven by one Donald Mather of Springdale, Iowa, in which coupe was riding with him Winford Mather and Harold Olsen. Said accident occurring about 3/4 mile east from the center of West Branch, Iowa, at a point approximately in front of Rollo Crew's east plank driveway. Signed by jurors: T. A. Moore, I. S. Larson, E. L. Hollingsworht. Attest: A. M. McCormick, Coroner, Cedar Co., Iowa.

Funeral services for Lloyd and Lela were held from the Rochester church at 3:00 o'clock Monday afternoon, with burial in the Rochester cemetery.

16 August 1928 - West Branch Times

Lloyd Omer and Lela Catherine Lincoln, children of Lloyd Walter and Eva Ruth Lincoln, were called into the unknown without a mement's notice, when they were killed in an automobile accident Saturday night.

Lloyd, 10, was a member of the 5th grade in the West Branch public school. Lela, 5, was not yet old enough for school.

The father, a brother and sister, were in bed with injuries received in the accident, and only the mother and babe of the immediate family were able to attend the funeral services which were conducted at the Rochester Methodist church, by the Rev. H. D. Green, pastor of the Methodist church at West Branch, assisted by the Rev. A. J. Hanson, pastor of the Friends church. Interment was made in the Rochester cemetery.

The entire community feels inexpressible sympathy for the family in this time of suffering and sorrow.