Car Accident Leaves Three Dead, Including Ellis Jackson Who Was to Have Been Married Aug. 31, 1926

Auto Accident Kills Three. . . One of Victims Was to Have Been Married Today; Cars Collided

Hickory, Aug. 30 (AP)—Three persons, including a man who was to have been married tomorrow, were killed and three injured when two automobiles collided near here today.

The dead are:

--Mrs. A H. Jarrett of Concord, wife (line obscured) school.

--Ellis L. Jackson of Newton, auditor of Catawba County.

--Nathan White, negro, of Concord, chauffeur for Mrs. Jarrett.

Mrs. T.L. Ross of Concord, sister of Mrs. Jarrett, James Ross, 11, son of Mrs. Ross, and the negro maid, whose name was not learned, were injured. They are expected to recover.

Jackson’s automobile crashed into the Jarrett car on a sharp curve, it was said. Mrs. Jarrett was dead when removed from the wreckage and Jackson and White died four hours later.

Jackson was to have married Miss Lelia D. Simpson of Barium Springs.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, Aug 31, 1926

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