Hood County Texas Genealogical Society
This
community was thrown into a fever of excitement yesterday morning at 8 o’clock
when news of the accidental death of the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R.I.
Milhollin, one of our best families, was flashed over the wires of the local
telephone exchange. It seems that the
little fellow had gone to the barn to do up his morning work, and in attempting
to slide a large door back so as to get in the barn, the door fell on the boy
precipitating him to the ground. At the
time the fatal accident occurred no one at the house new of it, but some time
afterwards Mr. Milhollin went to the barn to assist a renter to find some tools
and observed the door lying on the ground.
He asked the renter to assist him to raise the door, at which time the
fatal discovery was made. Dr. Gandy was
immediately summoned, and from the time he received the announcement till he
reached Mr. Milhollin’s house, a distance of three miles from town, he was on
the road just 7 minutes, the swiftest run ever made in this part of the state
by a physician behind two horses, but when he arrived the little fellow was
dead and his neck broken. The door
which fell on him is said to weigh at least 300 pounds. The remains were laid to rest in the
Evergreen cemetery this afternoon at 1 o’clock. The entire community deeply sympathize[s] with the bereaved
parents and other relatives.
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Quinton Milhollin was born
December 4, 1896. |