Hubert Yoder, 16, Dies After Shot to the Hip, Dec. 29, 1920

Hubert Yoder, the young man shot in the hip by a small boy late yesterday, died at the hospital here shortly after noon. Hubert Yoder, 16 years old, died in the Richard Baker Hospital this afternoon from a wound inflicted yesterday after by a shotgun in the hands of a small boy in the public road near Blackburn, this county. Hubert was on his way home from a store and Jerry Wood and two other lads, Weaver and Leonard by name, walked along with him with a loaded single barrel shotgun, the Weaver boy it is said, carrying the weapon. In some manner the gun discharged and sent a load of shot and packing through Hubert Yoder’s right hip. He bled terribly before he could be carried to the hospital here and Dr. Shuford considered an operation in his case would be fatal. The boys with the gun were about 12 or 13 years old. He is the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Colon M. Yoder, of the South Fork section, and is a splendid youth. The parents, who are among the best people in the county, have the sympathy of hundreds of friends. (From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Wednesday evening, Dec. 29, 1920)