Clarence Gannon Killed by a Horse Falling on Him
Clarence Gannon, seventeen years of age, and son of Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Gannon, of southwest of Spur, died Wednesday morning of this week from injuries sustained Tuesday evening by a horse falling with him, his remains being interred in the Spur Cemetery.
Clarence, with other boys, had started from the Gannon home over to Tom McArthur's where other boys were to join them in going in swimming at a nearby tank. The boys were riding horsed, Clarence being on an old "out-law" horse which ran into a wire gate, throwing both horse and rider with the result that Clarence sustained a fractured spine at the base of his brain, together with other injuries. He was brought immediately to the Nichols Sanitarium, but never regained consciousness after the accident, being beyond the aid of medical science or surgical skill.
The Texas Spur extends sincere sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Gannon in this misfortune and hour of sorrow and bereavement.
©The Texas Spur, July 2, 1926
From the records of Lillian Grace Nay, Spur Museum, transcribed by Becky Hodges, August 2004
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