Married Maxine Burns in Columbia Co., AR on 9 Oct. 1937
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The Minden (La) Press (Nov. 4, 1954)
Auto Crash Kills
Two Minden Men
On Highway 12
Two Minden men homeward bound from the Minden-Ruston football game were instantly killed Friday night when their car swerved out of control on a curve and crashed into a bridge railing on Highway 12.
State Trooper A.E. Whitman said the victims, 30-year-old James Robert Long, Jr., and Arthur D. McEachern, 36, both of Minden, were flung from the careening car and died instantly about 10:30 p.m.
Investigating officers said an eyewitness, a Negro, told them the automobile was traveling at a high rate of speed when it rounded the curve two and a half miles north of Arcadia on the Arcadia-Athens highway.
The vehicle slammed into the bridge raining and plunged down the bank of a creek, overturning three times. Dr. Claude Ferguson, Bienville Parish coroner, said Long died of a broken neck and McEachern died of a crushed skull and crushed right side.
"It was by far the worst wreck I have ever witnessed," the coroner said. The auto, a 1953 Dodge, was demolished.
Officers and residents of the area launched a search for other possible victims of the wreck after a boy's Cub Scout hat was found in the car. However, they called off the hunt after beating through the thick brush along the roadway for a time early Saturday morning.
Other than Trooper Whitman, officers assisting in the investigation were Bienville Deputies Orum Towns and Harris Collingsworth, Claiborne, Parish Deputy M.E. Faulk, an City Marshal Willie Davidson of Arcadia.
Funeral services for McEachern, a mechanic at Holland-Powell Motors, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Calvary Baptist Church here with the Rev. L.L. Clover officiating. Burial, under direction of the Green-Kleinegger Funeral Home was in the Minden cemetery. McEachern, a Minden resident most of his life, is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maxine McEachern; three sons, Arthur, Claude and Michael McEachern; his father, A.C. McEachern of Minden; one brother, O.H. McEachern of Springhill, a half brother, A.C. McEachern of Minden; two sisters, Mrs. Laverne Ward of Shongaloo and Mrs. Johnny White of Minden, and two half sisters, Mrs. Martha Wimberly and Miss Sue McEachern, both of Minden...
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The Minden (La) Press (Nov. 4, 1954)
Auto Crash Kills
Two Minden Men
On Highway 12
Two Minden men homeward bound from the Minden-Ruston football game were instantly killed Friday night when their car swerved out of control on a curve and crashed into a bridge railing on Highway 12.
State Trooper A.E. Whitman said the victims, 30-year-old James Robert Long, Jr., and Arthur D. McEachern, 36, both of Minden, were flung from the careening car and died instantly about 10:30 p.m.
Investigating officers said an eyewitness, a Negro, told them the automobile was traveling at a high rate of speed when it rounded the curve two and a half miles north of Arcadia on the Arcadia-Athens highway.
The vehicle slammed into the bridge raining and plunged down the bank of a creek, overturning three times. Dr. Claude Ferguson, Bienville Parish coroner, said Long died of a broken neck and McEachern died of a crushed skull and crushed right side.
"It was by far the worst wreck I have ever witnessed," the coroner said. The auto, a 1953 Dodge, was demolished.
Officers and residents of the area launched a search for other possible victims of the wreck after a boy's Cub Scout hat was found in the car. However, they called off the hunt after beating through the thick brush along the roadway for a time early Saturday morning.
Other than Trooper Whitman, officers assisting in the investigation were Bienville Deputies Orum Towns and Harris Collingsworth, Claiborne, Parish Deputy M.E. Faulk, an City Marshal Willie Davidson of Arcadia.
Funeral services for McEachern, a mechanic at Holland-Powell Motors, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Calvary Baptist Church here with the Rev. L.L. Clover officiating. Burial, under direction of the Green-Kleinegger Funeral Home was in the Minden cemetery. McEachern, a Minden resident most of his life, is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maxine McEachern; three sons, Arthur, Claude and Michael McEachern; his father, A.C. McEachern of Minden; one brother, O.H. McEachern of Springhill, a half brother, A.C. McEachern of Minden; two sisters, Mrs. Laverne Ward of Shongaloo and Mrs. Johnny White of Minden, and two half sisters, Mrs. Martha Wimberly and Miss Sue McEachern, both of Minden...
Married Maxine Burns in Columbia Co., AR on 9 Oct. 1937
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The Minden (La) Press (Nov. 4, 1954)
Auto Crash Kills
Two Minden Men
On Highway 12
Two Minden men homeward bound from the Minden-Ruston football game were instantly killed Friday night when their car swerved out of control on a curve and crashed into a bridge railing on Highway 12.
State Trooper A.E. Whitman said the victims, 30-year-old James Robert Long, Jr., and Arthur D. McEachern, 36, both of Minden, were flung from the careening car and died instantly about 10:30 p.m.
Investigating officers said an eyewitness, a Negro, told them the automobile was traveling at a high rate of speed when it rounded the curve two and a half miles north of Arcadia on the Arcadia-Athens highway.
The vehicle slammed into the bridge raining and plunged down the bank of a creek, overturning three times. Dr. Claude Ferguson, Bienville Parish coroner, said Long died of a broken neck and McEachern died of a crushed skull and crushed right side.
"It was by far the worst wreck I have ever witnessed," the coroner said. The auto, a 1953 Dodge, was demolished.
Officers and residents of the area launched a search for other possible victims of the wreck after a boy's Cub Scout hat was found in the car. However, they called off the hunt after beating through the thick brush along the roadway for a time early Saturday morning.
Other than Trooper Whitman, officers assisting in the investigation were Bienville Deputies Orum Towns and Harris Collingsworth, Claiborne, Parish Deputy M.E. Faulk, an City Marshal Willie Davidson of Arcadia.
Funeral services for McEachern, a mechanic at Holland-Powell Motors, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Calvary Baptist Church here with the Rev. L.L. Clover officiating. Burial, under direction of the Green-Kleinegger Funeral Home was in the Minden cemetery. McEachern, a Minden resident most of his life, is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maxine McEachern; three sons, Arthur, Claude and Michael McEachern; his father, A.C. McEachern of Minden; one brother, O.H. McEachern of Springhill, a half brother, A.C. McEachern of Minden; two sisters, Mrs. Laverne Ward of Shongaloo and Mrs. Johnny White of Minden, and two half sisters, Mrs. Martha Wimberly and Miss Sue McEachern, both of Minden...
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The Minden (La) Press (Nov. 4, 1954)
Auto Crash Kills
Two Minden Men
On Highway 12
Two Minden men homeward bound from the Minden-Ruston football game were instantly killed Friday night when their car swerved out of control on a curve and crashed into a bridge railing on Highway 12.
State Trooper A.E. Whitman said the victims, 30-year-old James Robert Long, Jr., and Arthur D. McEachern, 36, both of Minden, were flung from the careening car and died instantly about 10:30 p.m.
Investigating officers said an eyewitness, a Negro, told them the automobile was traveling at a high rate of speed when it rounded the curve two and a half miles north of Arcadia on the Arcadia-Athens highway.
The vehicle slammed into the bridge raining and plunged down the bank of a creek, overturning three times. Dr. Claude Ferguson, Bienville Parish coroner, said Long died of a broken neck and McEachern died of a crushed skull and crushed right side.
"It was by far the worst wreck I have ever witnessed," the coroner said. The auto, a 1953 Dodge, was demolished.
Officers and residents of the area launched a search for other possible victims of the wreck after a boy's Cub Scout hat was found in the car. However, they called off the hunt after beating through the thick brush along the roadway for a time early Saturday morning.
Other than Trooper Whitman, officers assisting in the investigation were Bienville Deputies Orum Towns and Harris Collingsworth, Claiborne, Parish Deputy M.E. Faulk, an City Marshal Willie Davidson of Arcadia.
Funeral services for McEachern, a mechanic at Holland-Powell Motors, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Calvary Baptist Church here with the Rev. L.L. Clover officiating. Burial, under direction of the Green-Kleinegger Funeral Home was in the Minden cemetery. McEachern, a Minden resident most of his life, is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maxine McEachern; three sons, Arthur, Claude and Michael McEachern; his father, A.C. McEachern of Minden; one brother, O.H. McEachern of Springhill, a half brother, A.C. McEachern of Minden; two sisters, Mrs. Laverne Ward of Shongaloo and Mrs. Johnny White of Minden, and two half sisters, Mrs. Martha Wimberly and Miss Sue McEachern, both of Minden...
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