Alonzo McGinnis Dies in Car Accident, September 1920

Salisbury, Sept. 22--Alonzo McGinnis, a merchant and lumber dealer of Valmede, a suburb of Lenoir, was instantly killed in an automobile accident 10 miles west of Salisbury yesterday morning. With a party of Lenoir men, including ex-Sheriff J.M. Smith, his son J.C. Smith; Dr. A.B. Golodham and Roby McLean, the latter driving the car, he was on his way to Salisbury to attend a Republican club meeting. The car left the road bed when nearing a creek and after turning over once righted itself in shallow water. Four men remained in the car and when they missed McGinnis they found that he had been thrown out of the car and was under the rear wheel buried in water. He was dead when extricated. McLean taken to Hickory. McGinnis was 45 and leaves a wife and three children. HIs body was taken to Lenoir. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Sept. 22, 1920.)