Lewis Earnhardt, truck driver for Standard Oil Company in Concord, was almost instantly killed yesterday afternoon when a Ford car in which he was riding turned over on the Charlotte-Albemarle highway near Midland. The accident occurred and eye witnesses to the accident declared the car turned over when the driver turned too quickly at a road intersection. Instead of rounding the bend in the road at the intersection it wa reported that Mr. Earnhardt cut too quickly, sending his car into a ditch.
Two colored men saw the accident and they immediately called others. A physician was summoned but death came before he reached the injured man. Mr. Earnhardt’s neck was broken and his head badly damaged.
Mr. Earnhardt was 40 years of age and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. P.a. Earnhardt of No. 7 township. He came to Concord in January and had been employed by the Standard Oil Company since January 15th. In addition to this parents and several brothers and sisters, the deceased is survived by his wife and three children.
The body was brought to Concord about 6 o’clock last night and prepared for burial at the H.B. Wilkinson Funeral Parlors. Later it was carried to the home of the deceased on Reed street.
Funeral services were held this afternoon at 3 o’clock at St. Stephens Church, and interment was made in the cemetery of the church.
The surviving relatives in addition to the parents, wife and children are: Charles and Jason Earnhardt, brothers, and Mrs. Will Petrea, Mrs. Hammerill and Mrs. Gilbert Moose, sisters.
Mr. Earnhardt’s Ford was not badly damaged. The ditch into which the car was driven was several feet deep but the car was driven back to Concord under its own power last night.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Nov. 24, 1924
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