Wilmington, Jan. 11—Clarence A. Bell, salesman for the Brown-Williamson Tobacco Company, died at 7 o’clock tonight as a result of injuries suffered late in the afternoon when his machine turned turtle on the Town Creek Road in Brunswick County, seven miles west of Wilmington, pinning him underneath it and crushing his lungs.
Although injured before 5 p.m., Bell did not die until after he had been brought to his home here. He was rational at the time and talked with his wife and other occupants of the house they occupied. He said he remained underneath the machine for approximately two hours, unable to extricate himself and suffering terribly. Eventually another motorist passed the spot and freed him, bringing him to the city.
The deceased, a native of Harnett County, is survived by his widow, who was a Lillington girl; three brothers, E.L. of Morganton; Gus of Dillon, S.C., and C.J. Bell of Dunn. Three sisters, Miss Carrie Lee Bell and Mrs. Perry Morgan of Raleigh and Mrs. Norman Yates of Dunn, also survive him.
The funeral party will leave here Tuesday morning at 8:30 o’clock for Dunn, where funeral services will be held and interment made.
(Mrs. Bell, who was before her marriage Miss Essie Hunley, is a niece of Mrs. Fred Cox of Lillington. She is well known here and has a host of friends who will sincerely sympathize with her in the tragic death of her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Cox left yesterday morning for Dunn to attent the funeral of Mr. Bell.)
From the front page of the Harnett County News, Thursday, Jan. 14, 1926
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