Funeral Services for Mrs. A. H. Jarratt, killed in an automobile accident near Newton Monday at noon, will be held at All Saints Episcopal Church here tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. Interment will follow in Oakwood Cemetery.
Bishop Edwin A. Penick of Charlotte and Rev. H. B. Thomas, rector of All Saints Church, will conduct the services at the church and grave.
The pall bearers at the funeral will be: R. P. Gibson, Leonard Brown, W. H. Gibson, H. L. Cook, Robert P. Bell, J. Leslie Bell, A. S. Webb and H. I. Woodhouse.
Mrs. Laura Leslie Ross and son, Thomas, injured in the same accident, are believed to be on the road to recovery.
Ellis Jackson of Newton and Charlotte, driver of the car which crashed with that carrying the Concord party to Montreat, died in a Hickory hospital several hours after the accident. Nathan White, negro chauffeur for Mrs. Jarratt, also died during the afternoon, bringing the casualty total to three.
Mrs. Ross and son are still in the Hickory hospital and each is expected to recover. Mrs. Ross complains more with her side than anything else, relatives here have been told, but so far no serious complications have arisen.
Young Thomas Ross, 11, suffered a fractured skull in the accident, it became known late Monday afternoon after he had been examined at the Hickory hospital. Unless unforeseen complications set in, attending physicians say he will recover. The fracture is not a serious one, relatives have been told, and there were no ill effects from the ??
Details of the tragedy which has shocked Concord more than anything which has happened in some time, indicate that the Jarratt sedan, carrying Mrs. Jarratt, Mrs. Ross, Thomas and a negro cook, was struck about the middle by the Jackson coupe, which is said to have been running at a rapid rate of speed.
Mrs. Jarratt was on the rear seat of the sedan and was on the side struck by the other car. White was on the same side. Mrs. Ross and son were also on the rear seat with the cook seated next to the driver. The cook was the only occupant of the car to escape serious injury.
Relatives here have been told that the two cars met on a sharp curve and that Jackson was not able to pull his car to the other side of the road in time to avoid a collision. Mrs. Ross has been quoted as saying that she saw the couple approaching rapidly and glanced at the speedometer of the car in which she was riding, noting that it registered 35 miles an hour. When Mrs. White saw the approaching car, Mrs. Ross has been quoted as saying, he drove as close to the edge of the road as he could. However, the couple struck the car about the back of the front seat, shattering every glass in the sedan and throwing all occupants to the ground. The car was completely wrecked, it is said, as was the coupe.
It also has been reported that Thomas Ross was not found until some time after the accident. One of the first persons to reach the accident rushed Mrs. Ross to the Hickory hospital and another person picked up Jackson and White and hurried on to the hospital. It was 15 minutes later, it is said, before the injured child was detected, and then he too was taken to the hospital.
Mrs. Ross, suffering greatly from shock, seemed better, it was said, when advised that her son had not been killed or critically hurt.
Jackson never regained consciousness after the accident, it is said, so no statement could be secured from him as to how the accident occurred.
Mrs. Jarratt, sitting in the left side of the sedan, apparently received the full crash as the coupe struck near where she was sitting. An ugly gash in the top of her head inciated, it was said, that she struck the motormeter of the coupe as she was hurled from the car. [Maybe: Mrs. Jarratt, seated on the left side of the sedan, appears to have taken the full force of the impact when the coupe struck the sedan’s motormeter, hurling her from the car. A motormeter was an early automotive gadget — basically a temperature gauge mounted on top of the radiator cap, right out front on the hood. It stuck up like a little glass dial, often with a decorative metal housing.]
Jackson was badly mangled in the accident, it was said. He lived about four hours. White’s body also was said to have been badly cut and mangled.
The negro’s body was brought to Concord Monday night.
One of the saddest phases of the tragedy results from the close friendship of the Jarratts and Rev. John Jackson, brother of the dead man. As soon as he heard that is wife had been killed, Mr. Jarratt was said to have told friends he wanted Rev. Mr. Jackson, Episcopal minister of Charlotte, to conduct the funeral services. He did not know until he reached Newton that the driver of the other car was a brother of the minister.
The Concord party left here Monday morning for Montreat, where they have a summer home. They were going to close the home for the winter, and expected to return home in several weeks They went via Charlotte, Mt. Holly and Lincolnton so as to have a hard-surfaced road most of the way.
The Charlotte News Monday had the following facts about Mr. Jackson published before his death:
Ellis L. Jackson, connected with the accounting firm of Todd and McCullough of Charlotte, sustained a deep wound over his hear and was considered fatally injured, according to advices received here early Monday afternoon from the Hickory Hospital, where he was taken after an automobile collision near Newton in which Mrs. A. H. Jarratt of Concord was killed.
Mr. Jackson has been auditing the county records of Catawba Count, causing his presence in Newton Monday, it was learned here.
Mr. Jackson’s home in Charlotte was at 7 Elizabeth Avenue, where he lived with his sister, Miss Elizabeth Jackson. He was not married. Rev. John L, Jackson, rector of St. Marks Episcopal Church here, is a brother.
He injured man came to Charlotte eight year ago as a public accountant, and for the last six years has been with Todd and McCullough, he formerly lived in Baltimore and was 48 years old.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Advance, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 1926
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