Negro Man Killed In Truck Accident
A negro man, Willis Alberts [sic], 22, of Memphis, was killed and Kenneth Jackson Berry, 26, of Lubbock was slightly injured when two trucks turned over on U.S. Highway 287 at the southeast city limits of Memphis Saturday at noon.
According to the state highway patrolmen who investigated the accident, the 1950 Ford pickup which Berry was driving was towing the 1950 Chevrolet truck which Alberts [sic] was guiding into Memphis. The truck was loaded with water well drill stems.
The patrolmen said that apparently when the two vehicles started down the steep hill coming into Memphis, the truck began to overtake the pickup. Alberts [sic] apparently hit his brakes too hard and jerked the pickup into a skid.
The pickup skidded for several feet down the highway and then went across the road and turned over on the south side. The big truck broke free of the pickup and rolled over the embankment on the north side of the road, the patrolmen reported.
The truck caught Alberts [sic] beneath it and broke his neck as it turned over down the embankment. Berry was taken to a local hospital and treated for minor injuries and released that afternoon.
The two trucks were owned by the J.F. Peterson Water Well Drilling Co., of Lubbock. The company has been drilling irrigation test wells here in the county.
Funeral services were conducted for Alberts [sic] Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Morningside by Rev. J.E. Smith, Rev. Green and Rev. W.R. Gilmore.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Spicer Funeral Home.
(Published in The Memphis Democrat, Volume LXIV, Number 51, Memphis, Hall County, Texas, Thursday Afternoon, May 19, 1955, Page 1)
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Age at death: 21 years 5 months 11 days
Father's name: George Albert
Father's birthplace: Rice, Texas
Mother's name: Lois Allgood
Mother's birthplace: Corsicana, Texas
Occupation: Well Drilling Labor
Died in a truck accident.
Cenotaph for mother at: Lois Allgood Albert
A negro man, Willis Alberts [sic], 22, of Memphis, was killed and Kenneth Jackson Berry, 26, of Lubbock was slightly injured when two trucks turned over on U.S. Highway 287 at the southeast city limits of Memphis Saturday at noon.
According to the state highway patrolmen who investigated the accident, the 1950 Ford pickup which Berry was driving was towing the 1950 Chevrolet truck which Alberts [sic] was guiding into Memphis. The truck was loaded with water well drill stems.
The patrolmen said that apparently when the two vehicles started down the steep hill coming into Memphis, the truck began to overtake the pickup. Alberts [sic] apparently hit his brakes too hard and jerked the pickup into a skid.
The pickup skidded for several feet down the highway and then went across the road and turned over on the south side. The big truck broke free of the pickup and rolled over the embankment on the north side of the road, the patrolmen reported.
The truck caught Alberts [sic] beneath it and broke his neck as it turned over down the embankment. Berry was taken to a local hospital and treated for minor injuries and released that afternoon.
The two trucks were owned by the J.F. Peterson Water Well Drilling Co., of Lubbock. The company has been drilling irrigation test wells here in the county.
Funeral services were conducted for Alberts [sic] Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Morningside by Rev. J.E. Smith, Rev. Green and Rev. W.R. Gilmore.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Spicer Funeral Home.
(Published in The Memphis Democrat, Volume LXIV, Number 51, Memphis, Hall County, Texas, Thursday Afternoon, May 19, 1955, Page 1)
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Age at death: 21 years 5 months 11 days
Father's name: George Albert
Father's birthplace: Rice, Texas
Mother's name: Lois Allgood
Mother's birthplace: Corsicana, Texas
Occupation: Well Drilling Labor
Died in a truck accident.
Cenotaph for mother at: Lois Allgood Albert
Negro Man Killed In Truck Accident
A negro man, Willis Alberts [sic], 22, of Memphis, was killed and Kenneth Jackson Berry, 26, of Lubbock was slightly injured when two trucks turned over on U.S. Highway 287 at the southeast city limits of Memphis Saturday at noon.
According to the state highway patrolmen who investigated the accident, the 1950 Ford pickup which Berry was driving was towing the 1950 Chevrolet truck which Alberts [sic] was guiding into Memphis. The truck was loaded with water well drill stems.
The patrolmen said that apparently when the two vehicles started down the steep hill coming into Memphis, the truck began to overtake the pickup. Alberts [sic] apparently hit his brakes too hard and jerked the pickup into a skid.
The pickup skidded for several feet down the highway and then went across the road and turned over on the south side. The big truck broke free of the pickup and rolled over the embankment on the north side of the road, the patrolmen reported.
The truck caught Alberts [sic] beneath it and broke his neck as it turned over down the embankment. Berry was taken to a local hospital and treated for minor injuries and released that afternoon.
The two trucks were owned by the J.F. Peterson Water Well Drilling Co., of Lubbock. The company has been drilling irrigation test wells here in the county.
Funeral services were conducted for Alberts [sic] Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Morningside by Rev. J.E. Smith, Rev. Green and Rev. W.R. Gilmore.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Spicer Funeral Home.
(Published in The Memphis Democrat, Volume LXIV, Number 51, Memphis, Hall County, Texas, Thursday Afternoon, May 19, 1955, Page 1)
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Age at death: 21 years 5 months 11 days
Father's name: George Albert
Father's birthplace: Rice, Texas
Mother's name: Lois Allgood
Mother's birthplace: Corsicana, Texas
Occupation: Well Drilling Labor
Died in a truck accident.
Cenotaph for mother at: Lois Allgood Albert
A negro man, Willis Alberts [sic], 22, of Memphis, was killed and Kenneth Jackson Berry, 26, of Lubbock was slightly injured when two trucks turned over on U.S. Highway 287 at the southeast city limits of Memphis Saturday at noon.
According to the state highway patrolmen who investigated the accident, the 1950 Ford pickup which Berry was driving was towing the 1950 Chevrolet truck which Alberts [sic] was guiding into Memphis. The truck was loaded with water well drill stems.
The patrolmen said that apparently when the two vehicles started down the steep hill coming into Memphis, the truck began to overtake the pickup. Alberts [sic] apparently hit his brakes too hard and jerked the pickup into a skid.
The pickup skidded for several feet down the highway and then went across the road and turned over on the south side. The big truck broke free of the pickup and rolled over the embankment on the north side of the road, the patrolmen reported.
The truck caught Alberts [sic] beneath it and broke his neck as it turned over down the embankment. Berry was taken to a local hospital and treated for minor injuries and released that afternoon.
The two trucks were owned by the J.F. Peterson Water Well Drilling Co., of Lubbock. The company has been drilling irrigation test wells here in the county.
Funeral services were conducted for Alberts [sic] Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Morningside by Rev. J.E. Smith, Rev. Green and Rev. W.R. Gilmore.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Spicer Funeral Home.
(Published in The Memphis Democrat, Volume LXIV, Number 51, Memphis, Hall County, Texas, Thursday Afternoon, May 19, 1955, Page 1)
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Age at death: 21 years 5 months 11 days
Father's name: George Albert
Father's birthplace: Rice, Texas
Mother's name: Lois Allgood
Mother's birthplace: Corsicana, Texas
Occupation: Well Drilling Labor
Died in a truck accident.
Cenotaph for mother at: Lois Allgood Albert
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