Statesville, Sept. 15--Funeral services for Millard F. Nash, prominent citizen of Shiloh township, Iredell county, who was instantly killed late yesterday afternoon on the Buffalo Shoals road when he was run over by an automobile driven by two negroes, were held this morning at Pleasant Hill Baptist church.
Mr. Nash and his son-in-law had been to Catawba county to attend a camp meeting and on their return had stopped at Compton’s store for a cool drink. He had started back across the road when a car occupied by Cliff McWhorter and Cleve Bond, negroes, struck Mr. Nash, breaking both legs, knocking a hole in his head and inflicting a heavy blow about the heart. Both negroes came to Statesville and are being held in jail pending investigation of the matter. Sheriff M.P. Alexander, who went to the scene of the fatal accident and talked with witnesses of the tragedy, expresses the opinion that the accident was unavoidable.
Mr. Nash was a native of Union county, being 66 years of age. He removed to Iredell county about 45 years ago.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1925
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