Son of Walter and Deliah (Jackson) Bland.
BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY KENTUCKY OBITUARY – 1948
BLAND DIES ACCIDENTAL DEATH AT LOCUST HILL
John Bland, 26, was fatally injured on Tuesday, June 29, [1948] while hunting near Locust Hill. It is reported that he had shot a squirrel and it fell to the ground and started to run and that while attempting to kill it with the shotgun, the weapon discharged and the full load struck him in the upper right leg. When his cries for help were heard, he had lost so much blood that he was dead when he was brought to the Breckinridge County Memorial Hospital about 6:45 a.m. on that date. Mr. Bland was a veteran of WW II and the son of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Bland of McQuady. He was married and lived on a farm near Locust Hill where he was raising a crop. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 30th at the McQuady Baptist Church with interment in the church cemetery.
BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY KENTUCKY OBITUARY – 1948
BLAND DIES ACCIDENTAL DEATH AT LOCUST HILL
John Bland, 26, was fatally injured on Tuesday, June 29, [1948] while hunting near Locust Hill. It is reported that he had shot a squirrel and it fell to the ground and started to run and that while attempting to kill it with the shotgun, the weapon discharged and the full load struck him in the upper right leg. When his cries for help were heard, he had lost so much blood that he was dead when he was brought to the Breckinridge County Memorial Hospital about 6:45 a.m. on that date. Mr. Bland was a veteran of WW II and the son of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Bland of McQuady. He was married and lived on a farm near Locust Hill where he was raising a crop. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 30th at the McQuady Baptist Church with interment in the church cemetery.
Son of Walter and Deliah (Jackson) Bland.
BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY KENTUCKY OBITUARY – 1948
BLAND DIES ACCIDENTAL DEATH AT LOCUST HILL
John Bland, 26, was fatally injured on Tuesday, June 29, [1948] while hunting near Locust Hill. It is reported that he had shot a squirrel and it fell to the ground and started to run and that while attempting to kill it with the shotgun, the weapon discharged and the full load struck him in the upper right leg. When his cries for help were heard, he had lost so much blood that he was dead when he was brought to the Breckinridge County Memorial Hospital about 6:45 a.m. on that date. Mr. Bland was a veteran of WW II and the son of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Bland of McQuady. He was married and lived on a farm near Locust Hill where he was raising a crop. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 30th at the McQuady Baptist Church with interment in the church cemetery.
BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY KENTUCKY OBITUARY – 1948
BLAND DIES ACCIDENTAL DEATH AT LOCUST HILL
John Bland, 26, was fatally injured on Tuesday, June 29, [1948] while hunting near Locust Hill. It is reported that he had shot a squirrel and it fell to the ground and started to run and that while attempting to kill it with the shotgun, the weapon discharged and the full load struck him in the upper right leg. When his cries for help were heard, he had lost so much blood that he was dead when he was brought to the Breckinridge County Memorial Hospital about 6:45 a.m. on that date. Mr. Bland was a veteran of WW II and the son of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Bland of McQuady. He was married and lived on a farm near Locust Hill where he was raising a crop. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 30th at the McQuady Baptist Church with interment in the church cemetery.
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