J.C. Cater Ellison of near Cooter, received fatal injuries and four other persons were more or less seriously hurt, when the car he was driving was overturned about a half mile west of Game on the Braggadocio road about 11:30 o'clock Friday morning, April 26, 1918. Mr. Ellison never rcovered consciousness and died about 5 o'clock, his chest being crushed.
A Mrs. Evans and her baby, Frances, about 2 years old were in the front seat with him. The woman had a broken collarbone and is badly bruised on the right side of her face, but the baby was unhurt. These three were thrown out of the car.
Three girls, Lilly Evans, daughter of Mrs. Evans, Miss Pearl Alford of Micola and another called Victoria, were in the back seat and, in spite of the car turning over two or three times remained in it till it righted and stopped and were not seriously hurt, though considerably bruised.
Mr. Ellison and the party were on their way to Caruthesville. Along the road shortly previous to the accident, a smaller car came up behind and signaled for passage. Mr. Ellison was then probably going thiry or thirtyfive miles an hour it is said, and kept ahead awhile before deciding to give the road and began turning out, waving his hand as a signal for the other car to pass.
Apparently, then, the car which he had only owned about thirty days, go out of his control and began zigzagging in the road. In his attempt to hold it in the road, it turned too suddenly and whirled over and over two or three times, finally coming to a standsill on its wheels and pointing almost in the opposite direction from which it had been traveling. Mr. Ellison, Mrs. Evans and the baby had been thrown out before the car stopped. The girls hastily climbed out and, in a few minutes, other persons appeared on the scene to render their assisance. Some of the injured were hurried to Caruthersville in an auto and a doctor summonded. When he arrived, he pronounced the mans condition serious and suggested his removal to some house near, whereupon Louie Litzler took the unconscious man in his car to his home, where everything possible was done for him, but without avail, as he remained unconscious and passed away about 5 o'clock. Once or twice he spoke of his wife or baby, but never recognized the former when she reached his bedside.
The body was taken away Saturday morning and laid to rest in Mount Zion Cemetery, Upper Cooter. The funeral services attended by probably the largest assemblage ever gathered there for such an occasion, were conducted by the Rev. J.E. Newsome, assisted by Dr. T.G. Fallin, the Rev. H.T. Wright and the Rev. Mr. Keamey.
Mr. Ellison was a prosperous farmer of Cooter, 49 years old and had lived there about twenty-four years. He owned eighty acres of good land and was well equipped with stock, supplies, and farming implements.
He is survived by a widow, two sons, and two daughters.
It is a most regretable accident, largely due to the speed the car was going and the comparative inexperience of the driver. On the whole, however, it is very fortunate that more lives were not sacrificed in the sad affair.
1918
SON: Thomas A. Ellison (1905-1980) Memory Gardens, Concord, Calif.
SON: James Frank Ellison (1896-1992) Newcastle Cemetery, Newcastle, Calif.
SON: Lonnie Ellison (1899-1902) Mount Zion Cemetery, Steele, Mo.
NOTE: Missouri Death Cert. states his name as being Stephen Cater Ellison, 50 yrs, 3 mos. 19 days old∼Killed while racing a T Model Ford - he was driving a newer Buick, he had a man passenger in the front seat with him and a woman and child in the back seat - the man passenger was supposed to be egging him along to race because the Ford kept passing them. His chest was crushed from the steering wheel as the car rolled. There were only 3 cars in Cooter, Missouri at the time. The story goes that the woman in the backseat threw her daughter out of the car and all survived except for Stephen.
His nickname Cater is on his headstone
Children
Annabel - 1890
David Lee - 1891 - 1901
Mary Catherine (Cassie) - 1894 - 1978
James Franklin - 1896 - 1992
Lonnie - 1899 - 1902
Serena - 1901 - 1901
Lawrence Albert - 1902 - 1902
Thomas Alexander - 1905 - 1980
Thelma Flora - 1908 - 1911
A Mrs. Evans and her baby, Frances, about 2 years old were in the front seat with him. The woman had a broken collarbone and is badly bruised on the right side of her face, but the baby was unhurt. These three were thrown out of the car.
Three girls, Lilly Evans, daughter of Mrs. Evans, Miss Pearl Alford of Micola and another called Victoria, were in the back seat and, in spite of the car turning over two or three times remained in it till it righted and stopped and were not seriously hurt, though considerably bruised.
Mr. Ellison and the party were on their way to Caruthesville. Along the road shortly previous to the accident, a smaller car came up behind and signaled for passage. Mr. Ellison was then probably going thiry or thirtyfive miles an hour it is said, and kept ahead awhile before deciding to give the road and began turning out, waving his hand as a signal for the other car to pass.
Apparently, then, the car which he had only owned about thirty days, go out of his control and began zigzagging in the road. In his attempt to hold it in the road, it turned too suddenly and whirled over and over two or three times, finally coming to a standsill on its wheels and pointing almost in the opposite direction from which it had been traveling. Mr. Ellison, Mrs. Evans and the baby had been thrown out before the car stopped. The girls hastily climbed out and, in a few minutes, other persons appeared on the scene to render their assisance. Some of the injured were hurried to Caruthersville in an auto and a doctor summonded. When he arrived, he pronounced the mans condition serious and suggested his removal to some house near, whereupon Louie Litzler took the unconscious man in his car to his home, where everything possible was done for him, but without avail, as he remained unconscious and passed away about 5 o'clock. Once or twice he spoke of his wife or baby, but never recognized the former when she reached his bedside.
The body was taken away Saturday morning and laid to rest in Mount Zion Cemetery, Upper Cooter. The funeral services attended by probably the largest assemblage ever gathered there for such an occasion, were conducted by the Rev. J.E. Newsome, assisted by Dr. T.G. Fallin, the Rev. H.T. Wright and the Rev. Mr. Keamey.
Mr. Ellison was a prosperous farmer of Cooter, 49 years old and had lived there about twenty-four years. He owned eighty acres of good land and was well equipped with stock, supplies, and farming implements.
He is survived by a widow, two sons, and two daughters.
It is a most regretable accident, largely due to the speed the car was going and the comparative inexperience of the driver. On the whole, however, it is very fortunate that more lives were not sacrificed in the sad affair.
1918
SON: Thomas A. Ellison (1905-1980) Memory Gardens, Concord, Calif.
SON: James Frank Ellison (1896-1992) Newcastle Cemetery, Newcastle, Calif.
SON: Lonnie Ellison (1899-1902) Mount Zion Cemetery, Steele, Mo.
NOTE: Missouri Death Cert. states his name as being Stephen Cater Ellison, 50 yrs, 3 mos. 19 days old∼Killed while racing a T Model Ford - he was driving a newer Buick, he had a man passenger in the front seat with him and a woman and child in the back seat - the man passenger was supposed to be egging him along to race because the Ford kept passing them. His chest was crushed from the steering wheel as the car rolled. There were only 3 cars in Cooter, Missouri at the time. The story goes that the woman in the backseat threw her daughter out of the car and all survived except for Stephen.
His nickname Cater is on his headstone
Children
Annabel - 1890
David Lee - 1891 - 1901
Mary Catherine (Cassie) - 1894 - 1978
James Franklin - 1896 - 1992
Lonnie - 1899 - 1902
Serena - 1901 - 1901
Lawrence Albert - 1902 - 1902
Thomas Alexander - 1905 - 1980
Thelma Flora - 1908 - 1911
J.C. Cater Ellison of near Cooter, received fatal injuries and four other persons were more or less seriously hurt, when the car he was driving was overturned about a half mile west of Game on the Braggadocio road about 11:30 o'clock Friday morning, April 26, 1918. Mr. Ellison never rcovered consciousness and died about 5 o'clock, his chest being crushed.
A Mrs. Evans and her baby, Frances, about 2 years old were in the front seat with him. The woman had a broken collarbone and is badly bruised on the right side of her face, but the baby was unhurt. These three were thrown out of the car.
Three girls, Lilly Evans, daughter of Mrs. Evans, Miss Pearl Alford of Micola and another called Victoria, were in the back seat and, in spite of the car turning over two or three times remained in it till it righted and stopped and were not seriously hurt, though considerably bruised.
Mr. Ellison and the party were on their way to Caruthesville. Along the road shortly previous to the accident, a smaller car came up behind and signaled for passage. Mr. Ellison was then probably going thiry or thirtyfive miles an hour it is said, and kept ahead awhile before deciding to give the road and began turning out, waving his hand as a signal for the other car to pass.
Apparently, then, the car which he had only owned about thirty days, go out of his control and began zigzagging in the road. In his attempt to hold it in the road, it turned too suddenly and whirled over and over two or three times, finally coming to a standsill on its wheels and pointing almost in the opposite direction from which it had been traveling. Mr. Ellison, Mrs. Evans and the baby had been thrown out before the car stopped. The girls hastily climbed out and, in a few minutes, other persons appeared on the scene to render their assisance. Some of the injured were hurried to Caruthersville in an auto and a doctor summonded. When he arrived, he pronounced the mans condition serious and suggested his removal to some house near, whereupon Louie Litzler took the unconscious man in his car to his home, where everything possible was done for him, but without avail, as he remained unconscious and passed away about 5 o'clock. Once or twice he spoke of his wife or baby, but never recognized the former when she reached his bedside.
The body was taken away Saturday morning and laid to rest in Mount Zion Cemetery, Upper Cooter. The funeral services attended by probably the largest assemblage ever gathered there for such an occasion, were conducted by the Rev. J.E. Newsome, assisted by Dr. T.G. Fallin, the Rev. H.T. Wright and the Rev. Mr. Keamey.
Mr. Ellison was a prosperous farmer of Cooter, 49 years old and had lived there about twenty-four years. He owned eighty acres of good land and was well equipped with stock, supplies, and farming implements.
He is survived by a widow, two sons, and two daughters.
It is a most regretable accident, largely due to the speed the car was going and the comparative inexperience of the driver. On the whole, however, it is very fortunate that more lives were not sacrificed in the sad affair.
1918
SON: Thomas A. Ellison (1905-1980) Memory Gardens, Concord, Calif.
SON: James Frank Ellison (1896-1992) Newcastle Cemetery, Newcastle, Calif.
SON: Lonnie Ellison (1899-1902) Mount Zion Cemetery, Steele, Mo.
NOTE: Missouri Death Cert. states his name as being Stephen Cater Ellison, 50 yrs, 3 mos. 19 days old∼Killed while racing a T Model Ford - he was driving a newer Buick, he had a man passenger in the front seat with him and a woman and child in the back seat - the man passenger was supposed to be egging him along to race because the Ford kept passing them. His chest was crushed from the steering wheel as the car rolled. There were only 3 cars in Cooter, Missouri at the time. The story goes that the woman in the backseat threw her daughter out of the car and all survived except for Stephen.
His nickname Cater is on his headstone
Children
Annabel - 1890
David Lee - 1891 - 1901
Mary Catherine (Cassie) - 1894 - 1978
James Franklin - 1896 - 1992
Lonnie - 1899 - 1902
Serena - 1901 - 1901
Lawrence Albert - 1902 - 1902
Thomas Alexander - 1905 - 1980
Thelma Flora - 1908 - 1911
A Mrs. Evans and her baby, Frances, about 2 years old were in the front seat with him. The woman had a broken collarbone and is badly bruised on the right side of her face, but the baby was unhurt. These three were thrown out of the car.
Three girls, Lilly Evans, daughter of Mrs. Evans, Miss Pearl Alford of Micola and another called Victoria, were in the back seat and, in spite of the car turning over two or three times remained in it till it righted and stopped and were not seriously hurt, though considerably bruised.
Mr. Ellison and the party were on their way to Caruthesville. Along the road shortly previous to the accident, a smaller car came up behind and signaled for passage. Mr. Ellison was then probably going thiry or thirtyfive miles an hour it is said, and kept ahead awhile before deciding to give the road and began turning out, waving his hand as a signal for the other car to pass.
Apparently, then, the car which he had only owned about thirty days, go out of his control and began zigzagging in the road. In his attempt to hold it in the road, it turned too suddenly and whirled over and over two or three times, finally coming to a standsill on its wheels and pointing almost in the opposite direction from which it had been traveling. Mr. Ellison, Mrs. Evans and the baby had been thrown out before the car stopped. The girls hastily climbed out and, in a few minutes, other persons appeared on the scene to render their assisance. Some of the injured were hurried to Caruthersville in an auto and a doctor summonded. When he arrived, he pronounced the mans condition serious and suggested his removal to some house near, whereupon Louie Litzler took the unconscious man in his car to his home, where everything possible was done for him, but without avail, as he remained unconscious and passed away about 5 o'clock. Once or twice he spoke of his wife or baby, but never recognized the former when she reached his bedside.
The body was taken away Saturday morning and laid to rest in Mount Zion Cemetery, Upper Cooter. The funeral services attended by probably the largest assemblage ever gathered there for such an occasion, were conducted by the Rev. J.E. Newsome, assisted by Dr. T.G. Fallin, the Rev. H.T. Wright and the Rev. Mr. Keamey.
Mr. Ellison was a prosperous farmer of Cooter, 49 years old and had lived there about twenty-four years. He owned eighty acres of good land and was well equipped with stock, supplies, and farming implements.
He is survived by a widow, two sons, and two daughters.
It is a most regretable accident, largely due to the speed the car was going and the comparative inexperience of the driver. On the whole, however, it is very fortunate that more lives were not sacrificed in the sad affair.
1918
SON: Thomas A. Ellison (1905-1980) Memory Gardens, Concord, Calif.
SON: James Frank Ellison (1896-1992) Newcastle Cemetery, Newcastle, Calif.
SON: Lonnie Ellison (1899-1902) Mount Zion Cemetery, Steele, Mo.
NOTE: Missouri Death Cert. states his name as being Stephen Cater Ellison, 50 yrs, 3 mos. 19 days old∼Killed while racing a T Model Ford - he was driving a newer Buick, he had a man passenger in the front seat with him and a woman and child in the back seat - the man passenger was supposed to be egging him along to race because the Ford kept passing them. His chest was crushed from the steering wheel as the car rolled. There were only 3 cars in Cooter, Missouri at the time. The story goes that the woman in the backseat threw her daughter out of the car and all survived except for Stephen.
His nickname Cater is on his headstone
Children
Annabel - 1890
David Lee - 1891 - 1901
Mary Catherine (Cassie) - 1894 - 1978
James Franklin - 1896 - 1992
Lonnie - 1899 - 1902
Serena - 1901 - 1901
Lawrence Albert - 1902 - 1902
Thomas Alexander - 1905 - 1980
Thelma Flora - 1908 - 1911
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