John Taylor Sinclair tragically lost his life in an auto accident, deemed unavoidable by a coroner's jury. It happened at about 8:30 o'clock in the evening of September 16, 1934. The accident happened when his car turned over at Marshall and Big Bend Road in Bonhomme Township. He was pronounced dead at St. Louis County Hospital from massive internal injuries. He had resided at 6914 Noonan Avenue in St. Louis with wife Lulu and had been employed as a stone cutter. He was the son of John A. and Annie Taylor Sinclair and was 40 years old at the time of his death.
For more information his death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
John was buried in Park Cemetery in Carthage, MO., in the Sinclair family lot.
CARTHAGE PRESS WEEKLY
Carthage, Missouri
Week of THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1934
JOHN T. SINCLAIR KILLED
FORMER CARTHAGE MAN DIES IN ST. LOUIS CRASH
Services for Marble Worker Will Be Tomorrow at Home of Mother on West Central
John T. Sinclair, 39, of St. Louis, formerly of Carthage and a son of Mrs. Ann Sinclair of this city, was killed at 9 o'clock last night when a car in which he was a passenger ran up an embankment and struck a tree at Marshall and Big Bend roads at Kirkwood, suburb of St. Louis.
Sinclair was riding in the rumble seat of a car driven by Curtis Lackey of Springfield. He suffered a fractured skull. Lackey and two other passengers, Walter Bischoff and Charles Carr of Maplewood, were seriously injured. Lackey and Bischoff suffered possible skull fractures and Carr internal injuries. both were takent o the St. Louis County Hospital.
The body of Mr. Sinclair will be brought to Carthage, reaching here in the morning. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the home of his mother, 713 West Central Avenue. The Rev. E. J. Mason, rector of Grace Church, will be in charge. Burial will be in Park Cemetery.
Mr. Sinclair was born September 3, 1895 in St. Louis. He attended the St. Louis schools, later coming to Carthage to make his home. About 10 years ago he returned to St. Louis where he was employed as a stone cutter for his brother, George Sinclair, who is in the marble business there.
Surviving besides his mother, and brother are his wife, Mrs. Lula Sinclair of Royal Heights; two children, John Taylor and Alice Ann Sinclair, both of Royal Heights; three sisters, Miss Hattie Sinclair and Mrs. W. T. Morrow of Carthage and Mrs. George F. Mays of Pasadena, California.
Sinclair served in Company A, 128th Machine Gun Battalion during the world war. Members of Edwin W. Wiggins post, American Legion will act as pallbearers at the funeral services.
For more information his death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
John was buried in Park Cemetery in Carthage, MO., in the Sinclair family lot.
CARTHAGE PRESS WEEKLY
Carthage, Missouri
Week of THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1934
JOHN T. SINCLAIR KILLED
FORMER CARTHAGE MAN DIES IN ST. LOUIS CRASH
Services for Marble Worker Will Be Tomorrow at Home of Mother on West Central
John T. Sinclair, 39, of St. Louis, formerly of Carthage and a son of Mrs. Ann Sinclair of this city, was killed at 9 o'clock last night when a car in which he was a passenger ran up an embankment and struck a tree at Marshall and Big Bend roads at Kirkwood, suburb of St. Louis.
Sinclair was riding in the rumble seat of a car driven by Curtis Lackey of Springfield. He suffered a fractured skull. Lackey and two other passengers, Walter Bischoff and Charles Carr of Maplewood, were seriously injured. Lackey and Bischoff suffered possible skull fractures and Carr internal injuries. both were takent o the St. Louis County Hospital.
The body of Mr. Sinclair will be brought to Carthage, reaching here in the morning. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the home of his mother, 713 West Central Avenue. The Rev. E. J. Mason, rector of Grace Church, will be in charge. Burial will be in Park Cemetery.
Mr. Sinclair was born September 3, 1895 in St. Louis. He attended the St. Louis schools, later coming to Carthage to make his home. About 10 years ago he returned to St. Louis where he was employed as a stone cutter for his brother, George Sinclair, who is in the marble business there.
Surviving besides his mother, and brother are his wife, Mrs. Lula Sinclair of Royal Heights; two children, John Taylor and Alice Ann Sinclair, both of Royal Heights; three sisters, Miss Hattie Sinclair and Mrs. W. T. Morrow of Carthage and Mrs. George F. Mays of Pasadena, California.
Sinclair served in Company A, 128th Machine Gun Battalion during the world war. Members of Edwin W. Wiggins post, American Legion will act as pallbearers at the funeral services.
John Taylor Sinclair tragically lost his life in an auto accident, deemed unavoidable by a coroner's jury. It happened at about 8:30 o'clock in the evening of September 16, 1934. The accident happened when his car turned over at Marshall and Big Bend Road in Bonhomme Township. He was pronounced dead at St. Louis County Hospital from massive internal injuries. He had resided at 6914 Noonan Avenue in St. Louis with wife Lulu and had been employed as a stone cutter. He was the son of John A. and Annie Taylor Sinclair and was 40 years old at the time of his death.
For more information his death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
John was buried in Park Cemetery in Carthage, MO., in the Sinclair family lot.
CARTHAGE PRESS WEEKLY
Carthage, Missouri
Week of THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1934
JOHN T. SINCLAIR KILLED
FORMER CARTHAGE MAN DIES IN ST. LOUIS CRASH
Services for Marble Worker Will Be Tomorrow at Home of Mother on West Central
John T. Sinclair, 39, of St. Louis, formerly of Carthage and a son of Mrs. Ann Sinclair of this city, was killed at 9 o'clock last night when a car in which he was a passenger ran up an embankment and struck a tree at Marshall and Big Bend roads at Kirkwood, suburb of St. Louis.
Sinclair was riding in the rumble seat of a car driven by Curtis Lackey of Springfield. He suffered a fractured skull. Lackey and two other passengers, Walter Bischoff and Charles Carr of Maplewood, were seriously injured. Lackey and Bischoff suffered possible skull fractures and Carr internal injuries. both were takent o the St. Louis County Hospital.
The body of Mr. Sinclair will be brought to Carthage, reaching here in the morning. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the home of his mother, 713 West Central Avenue. The Rev. E. J. Mason, rector of Grace Church, will be in charge. Burial will be in Park Cemetery.
Mr. Sinclair was born September 3, 1895 in St. Louis. He attended the St. Louis schools, later coming to Carthage to make his home. About 10 years ago he returned to St. Louis where he was employed as a stone cutter for his brother, George Sinclair, who is in the marble business there.
Surviving besides his mother, and brother are his wife, Mrs. Lula Sinclair of Royal Heights; two children, John Taylor and Alice Ann Sinclair, both of Royal Heights; three sisters, Miss Hattie Sinclair and Mrs. W. T. Morrow of Carthage and Mrs. George F. Mays of Pasadena, California.
Sinclair served in Company A, 128th Machine Gun Battalion during the world war. Members of Edwin W. Wiggins post, American Legion will act as pallbearers at the funeral services.
For more information his death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
John was buried in Park Cemetery in Carthage, MO., in the Sinclair family lot.
CARTHAGE PRESS WEEKLY
Carthage, Missouri
Week of THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1934
JOHN T. SINCLAIR KILLED
FORMER CARTHAGE MAN DIES IN ST. LOUIS CRASH
Services for Marble Worker Will Be Tomorrow at Home of Mother on West Central
John T. Sinclair, 39, of St. Louis, formerly of Carthage and a son of Mrs. Ann Sinclair of this city, was killed at 9 o'clock last night when a car in which he was a passenger ran up an embankment and struck a tree at Marshall and Big Bend roads at Kirkwood, suburb of St. Louis.
Sinclair was riding in the rumble seat of a car driven by Curtis Lackey of Springfield. He suffered a fractured skull. Lackey and two other passengers, Walter Bischoff and Charles Carr of Maplewood, were seriously injured. Lackey and Bischoff suffered possible skull fractures and Carr internal injuries. both were takent o the St. Louis County Hospital.
The body of Mr. Sinclair will be brought to Carthage, reaching here in the morning. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the home of his mother, 713 West Central Avenue. The Rev. E. J. Mason, rector of Grace Church, will be in charge. Burial will be in Park Cemetery.
Mr. Sinclair was born September 3, 1895 in St. Louis. He attended the St. Louis schools, later coming to Carthage to make his home. About 10 years ago he returned to St. Louis where he was employed as a stone cutter for his brother, George Sinclair, who is in the marble business there.
Surviving besides his mother, and brother are his wife, Mrs. Lula Sinclair of Royal Heights; two children, John Taylor and Alice Ann Sinclair, both of Royal Heights; three sisters, Miss Hattie Sinclair and Mrs. W. T. Morrow of Carthage and Mrs. George F. Mays of Pasadena, California.
Sinclair served in Company A, 128th Machine Gun Battalion during the world war. Members of Edwin W. Wiggins post, American Legion will act as pallbearers at the funeral services.
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