His death record indicates that Bernard Henry Bacon died July 11, 1941.

There are two seperate articles here relating the circumstances of Bernard Bacon's death. I have no point of reference to indicate which newspapers they came from. K.D.B.

BERNARD BACON INSTANTLY KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT

When the Dodge sedan he was driving east on highway 72, crashed into a truck on the Kishwaukee River bridge, a half mile west of Genoa early Friday morning of last week, Bernard Bacon, 21, of Kingston was instantly killed. The car was reduced to a mass of wreckage and the truck, driven by William Harrington of Elgin, carrying ten tons of steel plate, was damaged beyond repair. This point in the highway is a bad spot under any conditions, there being a curve in the highway as one approaches the bridge, a curve after leaving the bridge, besides the curve as the highway passes under the Illinois Central tracks. Mr. Harrington, could not have seen the approaching car from the west until he had negotiated the underpass, nor could the car driver have seen the truck. There is no way of determining just how fast either truck or car were being driven. The condition of both machines after the impact was mute evidence of speed. The driver of the truck made an effort to evade the crash, as there is every evidence that he did turn the truck to the right. This no doubt saved his life, as the Dodge struck the trailer immediately back of the driver's cab. Had the collision been head-on, Harrington would not have lived to tell the story. He escaped with no injuries. No one will ever know how badly Bacon was injured internally. The head injury alone would have caused instant death. There may have been internal injuries, which were fatal. Sheriff Runnells was soon on the scene and took charge of details. The body was taken to the Kebil morgue in Sycamore.
Funeral services were held at the Kingston Methodist church Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Rev. D.J. Schuyleman officiating, and burial in the Mayfield cemetery.
He is survived by his parents, George and Edith King Bacon, four brothers, Paul, Elmer, Wilmer and Walter, and six sisters, Nellie, Phyllis, Violet, Jean, Donna and Georgia dell, all of Kingston.



AUTO-TRUCK CRASH NEAR GENOA IS FATAL TO YOUTH

Genoa, Ill. July 11. – Bernard Henry Bacon, 21, of Kingston was killed almost instantly about 7 o'clock this morning in an automobile-truck collision on state route 72 near the west city limits of Genoa. Bacon died of his injuries a few minutes after the accident, but the driver of the truck, William Harrington, 40, of Elgin, was uninjured. The truck, loaded with 10 tons of steel, went out of control after the crash and struck the railing of a bridge over the south branch of the Kishwaukee river. The Dodge coach Bacon was driving to Sycamore where he was employed at a garage, also struck the bridge railing. The automobile was completely demolished and the truck was badly damaged. Witnesses to the accident said that the truck and Bacon's car were going in opposite directions and sideswiped on the bridge.
Bacon, the son of Mr. And Mrs. George Bacon, was born near Sycamore on Apr. 3, 1920 and had lived on farms in DeKalb county all his life until last March when his parents moved to Kingston. Besides his parents he is survived by ten brothers and sisters, Paul, Elmer, Nellie, Phyllis, Violet, Wilmer and Walter, twins, Jean, Donna and Georgiabel.