Died from "carbon monoxide poisoning due to inhaling carbon monoxide gas due to dwelling burning" "trappped in bed room of burning home". Son of Champ C. & Catherine Thomason/Thompson Cummins. Electrical foreman for Colgate.
The Evening News - 18 Nov 1957
"A Clarksville couple, whose son's death by drowning in a creek sparked interest to build a pool, suffocated in their sleep early yesterday morning during a fire at their home. Dead are Cecil Homer Cummins, 44, an electrical foreman at the Colgate-Palmolive Company and his wife, Mrs. Helen Lee Cummins, 41, of 426 West Stansifer Avenue.
The couple, asleep, in the rear of the house was not burned by the flames of the fire, which were confined to the front part of the frame dwelling.
In May of 1950, the Cummins' elder son, Cecil Homer Cummins Jr., drowned in an accident while swimming in Silver Creek.
The death of the youngster crystallized sentiment in Clarksvillle for a swimming pool where youths could swim with supervised safety. Young Cummines (sic) was an eighth grader at the George Rogers Clark School.
Within days after the drowning, a petition was being circulated in favor of a swimming pool. It was presented at the August meeting of the Clarksville Town Board and actual construction got underway in October.
The pool opened July 4, 1951 - only 14 months after the Cummins boy's death.
Wilbur Hume, 731 Kenwood, a radio dispatcher for the Clarksville Police Department, discovered the fire at 3:45 a. m. The Cummins home is only two blocks from the police department.
Clarksville Fireman Henry Rumple, protected by an oxygen mask, entered the smoke filled house and recovered the bodies, which were removed through a rear bedroom window.
It was believed, at first, that Mrs. Cummins was still alive and she was given oxygen from the Clarksville Police Department's resuscitator.
But Clarksville County Coroner E. M. Coots said both victims probably were dead when the fire was discovered. Clarksville and Jeffersonville fire fighting units had the blaze under control 20 minutes after arriving.
Chief Perkins said the house was tightly sealed and had aluminum siding with storm doors and windows which prevented smoke from escaping and fresh air from entering. The aluminum siding had been added to the house only last Summer.
Survivors include two children. A son, Norman, is studying for the ministry at Butler University in Indianapolis and a daughter, Mrs. Fred Canita Cummins Dolbeare, 506 N. Taggart, in Clarksville.
Cummins is survived by two brothers, John H. Cummins, Louisville and Barrett Cummins, Cincinnati; three sisters, Mrs. Paul Platt, Rising Sun, Indiana, Mrs. Helen Sokolaw, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Roy Torstrick, Clarksville; his father, Champ C. Cummins and his mother, Mrs. Catherine Cummins, both of Louisville.
Other survivors of Mrs. Cummins include, one sister, Mrs. Catherine Sundberg, Louisville.
Cummins attended Franklin Baptist Church in Louisville while Mrs. Cummins was a member of the Howard Park Christian Church in Clarksville.
Double funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Tuesday from the Coots Chapel here with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
An inquest is scheduled for later this week."
The Evening News - 18 Nov 1957
"A Clarksville couple, whose son's death by drowning in a creek sparked interest to build a pool, suffocated in their sleep early yesterday morning during a fire at their home. Dead are Cecil Homer Cummins, 44, an electrical foreman at the Colgate-Palmolive Company and his wife, Mrs. Helen Lee Cummins, 41, of 426 West Stansifer Avenue.
The couple, asleep, in the rear of the house was not burned by the flames of the fire, which were confined to the front part of the frame dwelling.
In May of 1950, the Cummins' elder son, Cecil Homer Cummins Jr., drowned in an accident while swimming in Silver Creek.
The death of the youngster crystallized sentiment in Clarksvillle for a swimming pool where youths could swim with supervised safety. Young Cummines (sic) was an eighth grader at the George Rogers Clark School.
Within days after the drowning, a petition was being circulated in favor of a swimming pool. It was presented at the August meeting of the Clarksville Town Board and actual construction got underway in October.
The pool opened July 4, 1951 - only 14 months after the Cummins boy's death.
Wilbur Hume, 731 Kenwood, a radio dispatcher for the Clarksville Police Department, discovered the fire at 3:45 a. m. The Cummins home is only two blocks from the police department.
Clarksville Fireman Henry Rumple, protected by an oxygen mask, entered the smoke filled house and recovered the bodies, which were removed through a rear bedroom window.
It was believed, at first, that Mrs. Cummins was still alive and she was given oxygen from the Clarksville Police Department's resuscitator.
But Clarksville County Coroner E. M. Coots said both victims probably were dead when the fire was discovered. Clarksville and Jeffersonville fire fighting units had the blaze under control 20 minutes after arriving.
Chief Perkins said the house was tightly sealed and had aluminum siding with storm doors and windows which prevented smoke from escaping and fresh air from entering. The aluminum siding had been added to the house only last Summer.
Survivors include two children. A son, Norman, is studying for the ministry at Butler University in Indianapolis and a daughter, Mrs. Fred Canita Cummins Dolbeare, 506 N. Taggart, in Clarksville.
Cummins is survived by two brothers, John H. Cummins, Louisville and Barrett Cummins, Cincinnati; three sisters, Mrs. Paul Platt, Rising Sun, Indiana, Mrs. Helen Sokolaw, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Roy Torstrick, Clarksville; his father, Champ C. Cummins and his mother, Mrs. Catherine Cummins, both of Louisville.
Other survivors of Mrs. Cummins include, one sister, Mrs. Catherine Sundberg, Louisville.
Cummins attended Franklin Baptist Church in Louisville while Mrs. Cummins was a member of the Howard Park Christian Church in Clarksville.
Double funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Tuesday from the Coots Chapel here with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
An inquest is scheduled for later this week."
Died from "carbon monoxide poisoning due to inhaling carbon monoxide gas due to dwelling burning" "trappped in bed room of burning home". Son of Champ C. & Catherine Thomason/Thompson Cummins. Electrical foreman for Colgate.
The Evening News - 18 Nov 1957
"A Clarksville couple, whose son's death by drowning in a creek sparked interest to build a pool, suffocated in their sleep early yesterday morning during a fire at their home. Dead are Cecil Homer Cummins, 44, an electrical foreman at the Colgate-Palmolive Company and his wife, Mrs. Helen Lee Cummins, 41, of 426 West Stansifer Avenue.
The couple, asleep, in the rear of the house was not burned by the flames of the fire, which were confined to the front part of the frame dwelling.
In May of 1950, the Cummins' elder son, Cecil Homer Cummins Jr., drowned in an accident while swimming in Silver Creek.
The death of the youngster crystallized sentiment in Clarksvillle for a swimming pool where youths could swim with supervised safety. Young Cummines (sic) was an eighth grader at the George Rogers Clark School.
Within days after the drowning, a petition was being circulated in favor of a swimming pool. It was presented at the August meeting of the Clarksville Town Board and actual construction got underway in October.
The pool opened July 4, 1951 - only 14 months after the Cummins boy's death.
Wilbur Hume, 731 Kenwood, a radio dispatcher for the Clarksville Police Department, discovered the fire at 3:45 a. m. The Cummins home is only two blocks from the police department.
Clarksville Fireman Henry Rumple, protected by an oxygen mask, entered the smoke filled house and recovered the bodies, which were removed through a rear bedroom window.
It was believed, at first, that Mrs. Cummins was still alive and she was given oxygen from the Clarksville Police Department's resuscitator.
But Clarksville County Coroner E. M. Coots said both victims probably were dead when the fire was discovered. Clarksville and Jeffersonville fire fighting units had the blaze under control 20 minutes after arriving.
Chief Perkins said the house was tightly sealed and had aluminum siding with storm doors and windows which prevented smoke from escaping and fresh air from entering. The aluminum siding had been added to the house only last Summer.
Survivors include two children. A son, Norman, is studying for the ministry at Butler University in Indianapolis and a daughter, Mrs. Fred Canita Cummins Dolbeare, 506 N. Taggart, in Clarksville.
Cummins is survived by two brothers, John H. Cummins, Louisville and Barrett Cummins, Cincinnati; three sisters, Mrs. Paul Platt, Rising Sun, Indiana, Mrs. Helen Sokolaw, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Roy Torstrick, Clarksville; his father, Champ C. Cummins and his mother, Mrs. Catherine Cummins, both of Louisville.
Other survivors of Mrs. Cummins include, one sister, Mrs. Catherine Sundberg, Louisville.
Cummins attended Franklin Baptist Church in Louisville while Mrs. Cummins was a member of the Howard Park Christian Church in Clarksville.
Double funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Tuesday from the Coots Chapel here with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
An inquest is scheduled for later this week."
The Evening News - 18 Nov 1957
"A Clarksville couple, whose son's death by drowning in a creek sparked interest to build a pool, suffocated in their sleep early yesterday morning during a fire at their home. Dead are Cecil Homer Cummins, 44, an electrical foreman at the Colgate-Palmolive Company and his wife, Mrs. Helen Lee Cummins, 41, of 426 West Stansifer Avenue.
The couple, asleep, in the rear of the house was not burned by the flames of the fire, which were confined to the front part of the frame dwelling.
In May of 1950, the Cummins' elder son, Cecil Homer Cummins Jr., drowned in an accident while swimming in Silver Creek.
The death of the youngster crystallized sentiment in Clarksvillle for a swimming pool where youths could swim with supervised safety. Young Cummines (sic) was an eighth grader at the George Rogers Clark School.
Within days after the drowning, a petition was being circulated in favor of a swimming pool. It was presented at the August meeting of the Clarksville Town Board and actual construction got underway in October.
The pool opened July 4, 1951 - only 14 months after the Cummins boy's death.
Wilbur Hume, 731 Kenwood, a radio dispatcher for the Clarksville Police Department, discovered the fire at 3:45 a. m. The Cummins home is only two blocks from the police department.
Clarksville Fireman Henry Rumple, protected by an oxygen mask, entered the smoke filled house and recovered the bodies, which were removed through a rear bedroom window.
It was believed, at first, that Mrs. Cummins was still alive and she was given oxygen from the Clarksville Police Department's resuscitator.
But Clarksville County Coroner E. M. Coots said both victims probably were dead when the fire was discovered. Clarksville and Jeffersonville fire fighting units had the blaze under control 20 minutes after arriving.
Chief Perkins said the house was tightly sealed and had aluminum siding with storm doors and windows which prevented smoke from escaping and fresh air from entering. The aluminum siding had been added to the house only last Summer.
Survivors include two children. A son, Norman, is studying for the ministry at Butler University in Indianapolis and a daughter, Mrs. Fred Canita Cummins Dolbeare, 506 N. Taggart, in Clarksville.
Cummins is survived by two brothers, John H. Cummins, Louisville and Barrett Cummins, Cincinnati; three sisters, Mrs. Paul Platt, Rising Sun, Indiana, Mrs. Helen Sokolaw, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Roy Torstrick, Clarksville; his father, Champ C. Cummins and his mother, Mrs. Catherine Cummins, both of Louisville.
Other survivors of Mrs. Cummins include, one sister, Mrs. Catherine Sundberg, Louisville.
Cummins attended Franklin Baptist Church in Louisville while Mrs. Cummins was a member of the Howard Park Christian Church in Clarksville.
Double funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Tuesday from the Coots Chapel here with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
An inquest is scheduled for later this week."
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