The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1951-06-28
Double Services Held
For Accident Victims
John Heurn Vehicle
Crashes Into Tree,
Causing Death or

Causing Death or
Double funeral services were
held Monday at 3 pm. from Eben-
ezer Baptist church near Licking
ton for Mr.. and Mrs. John Hearn.
elderly couple who were death
victims Of an automobile crash in
Lexington on June %. MIR.
Hearn, 70, died about two hours
after reaching the nearby Holmes
County Community hospital, ne
yer regaining consciousness, while
Mrs. Hearn died about eiglt
hours later. Both suffered multi
pie fractures and bruises, and
both suffered internal hemor-
rhage.
The accident occurred around
3 pm. Saturday just after the
couple with their l7-year-old
granddaughter, Dorothy May Fer
rell, all of the Thornton precinct
near Howard, had entered the
city limits enroute to Lexington.
A member of the family said
Mr.. Hearn evidently dozed for a
minute, Running off the street on
the eft side of the road and crash
ing into a tree in front of the
Rarham H. Williams homie on the
west side of the city. The grand
daughter left the hospital Sun
day morning following medical
observation, and was thought to
have suffered no serious injuries.
Mr.. Hearn was driving a 1851
four-door Chevrolet which he han
driven for three months.
The accident was witnessed by
Psrham H. Williams, sJr., who was
the first to reach the scene and
who secured help Mr.. Hearn,
whose head was slulnped into abe
steering wheel oh the trent
smashed vehicle, suffered broken
facial bones, throat cuts, and in
ternal wounds, for which he was
given blood transflxsions.
Mrs Hearn. 70. suffer e d
deep cuts across both eyes, brok-
.en leg AMID arm, arzij rib punrtured
through one lung, Through which
injuries and until her death at
100 am Sunday. she remained
conscious.
Born in Holmes county, August
Ia, 1874, the son oil Newton Hearn,
pioneer resident here, where he
had lived throughout his life, Mr..
Hearn was known as an out
standing citizen who stood FIRMLY
for Whit he believed was night.
He was IA former justice eli the
peace for a number of years, a
farmer, Gattleman, and sawmill
owner. He was "a member of
Ebenezer Baptist church.
Mrs. Eaearn, the former Evie
Olidia Brown, was the daughter
of Andrew Jackson and HeE1dra
Casey Brown, pioneer county set.
tiers, having been horn in April
of 1879. She and Mr.. Hearn had
observed their 50th wedding an.
%niversary "a few years ago. She.
also was a lifelong member of,
Ebenezer Baptist church, and was
the mother of Is children, three
of whom met death as infants.
Surviving are eight sons: John
Newton Hearn. and Samuel
lHearn of Thornton; Andrew
Hearn, Willard z. Hearn, 10 Ellis
Hearn, Alfred Hearn, and Thorn
as Earl Hearn, all Of Lexington,
and Staff Sgt. Marion Hearn Of
the II. S. Army, Camp Stewart
Ga; four daughters: Mrs. Olive
Tyson. Lexington: Mrs. Alton
Terrell, Thornton; Mrs. Mary
Dell Knots, Jackson, and Mrs.
Phillip Zeigler, Midway, in va
zoo county.
They also leave a large num-
Der of grandchildren and great
grandchildren, nieces and ne
phews.
Mr.. Hearn leaves two sisters.
Mrs. Martha Stevens of the home
and Mrs. Josie Brown of Ebene-
ger. Mrs. Hearn leaves two sis
tiers, Mrs. Mary Parkinson, Cox
burg, and Mrs. Columbus Garrard,
Carrollton.
The Rev. c. M. Day and the
Rev. p. D. Bragg officiated in the
last rites. Burial was in Ebenezer
cemetery.
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