Person:John Hawken (3)

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Birth: Apr. 5, 1909 Death: Dec., 1933

MILLER CO. AUTOGRAM DECEMBER 28,1933 HEAD STRUCK POSTS ON INTERCITY VIADUCT AS HE LEANED FROM CAR, SAYS THE KANSAS CITY PAPERS BERNARD HENNESEY AND KELLIS WRIGHT, OTHER OCCUPANTS OF THE CAR, HELD FOR QUESTIONING Tuscumbia relatives and friends were shocked and deeply grieved to hear Saturday morning that JOHN HAWKEN, son of Mr. and Mrs S. P. Hawken of near Tuscumbia, met death in a tragic manner Saturday night while he & Bernard Hennessey, 19,& Kellis Wright, 25, were driving westward from Kansas City Mo., to Kansas City, Kansas, over the intercity viaduct. According to reports in the Kansas City Papers, his head struck several posts on the viaduct as he leaned from the rear window of the car. Hennessey told Capt. Stanley Beatty of the Kansas City, Kansas police department that it was several minutes after the accident before he and Wright knew that their comrade had been injured. They said they discovered it when they noticed Hawken's head and shoulders protruding from the open window. Capt Beatty' found blood on several posts on the viaduct. Young Hawken was employed at the Kansas City Packing and Fibre Box Co., where his uncle, W C Hawken, also worked. He was boarding at the home of Jas. Anson, who married a cousin of Hawken. Mr. and Mrs Hawken, parents of the victim, received word of his death at 3 am Saturday and Mr Hawken departed as quickly as possible for the city, and arrangements were made to bring the body to Tuscumbia for burial. John was born near Tuscumbia April 5,1909, and was therefore 24 years, 8 months, and 17 days old. He was an honest and industrious young man, an employee in whom one could put the utmost dependence, and it is regretted that so stalwart a young man, just in the prime of life, should meet with so untimely a death. The host of relatives and friends here and elsewhere deeply sympathize with the parents, his brothers and sisters. Besides his parents, he leaves to mourn his death five sisters and three brothers. Mrs Truman Vernon of Eldon, Mrs Forrest Lewis of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, Mrs Malachi Wyrick of Tuscumbia, Perry of Jefferson City, Miss Myrtle, Miss Francie, Wayne and Jesse at home. Funeral Services were conducted at the Tuscumbia Christian church by Rev S A Crouch, pastor, with a chior of eight young men with T C Wright in Charge. These services were held at 10;30 am Christmas Day, and the building was packed to overflowing. The Eldon Funeral Home had charge of the burial arrangements. The body was laid to rest in the Tuscumbia Cemetery. Pall bearers were six of his intimate freinds~H. L Wright, Lloyd Stone, Homer Clay Wright, Tollivar Lawson, Otto Richardson and Emmett Crane.