Submitted by

Cliff Good

The Marlin Democrat

August 14, 1939

Accident Injuries are Fatal to Travis Youth

Expires in Marlin Hospital Nine Hours After Car Overturns On Highway

     Sam Good, 24, who resided near Travis, died in a Marlin hospital around 1a.m., Monday of injuries sustained Sunday afternoon when the small coupe which he was driving overturned after crashing into the guard fence on the east approach of the Brazos River bridge on the Marlin/Chilton highway.

     Good sustained severe internal injuries that resulted in his death about nine hours after the accident.  Physicians said that his chest was crushed as though it has been caught in a vise and that he also suffered injuries in the abdomen.

     Dell Lamley who was riding with Mr. Good was uninjured, not even receiving a minor scratch or bruise.  Mr. Good had only one bruise on the skin, the skin being broken slightly on the right arm just above the elbow. 

     Mr. Lamley said that he and Sam Good had started back to Travis after spending an hour in Marlin and that Good was trying to outrun two motorcycles across the bride when the accident happened.

     Mr. Lamley said that Sam Good apparently lost control of the car which crashed into the guard fence on the approach to the bridge, ripping it off the posts for a distance of about 25 or 30 feet before it turned over some three or four times, coming to a stop on its side diagonally across the road, with the front of the machine facing back east.

     Good, who resided with Emil Adams at Travis, is survived by two brothers, O. C. Good of Houston and Enoch Good of Sweetwater, three sisters, Miss Susie Good of Travis, Mrs. Luther Lloyd and a third sister, Pricillia Good Lewis, who is married and lives in west Texas.

     The car which Mr. Good was driving at the time of the accident belonged to Mr. Adams.

     Deputy Sheriff J. N. Davis and Constable Jack Powell investigated the accident.

     Sam Good was thrown clear of the automobile as it rolled over and the machine rolled over his body.      

Note: Sam Good's sister said that the car's steering wheel broke.  Pricillia states that Sam told Dell and Emil to jump out of the car and he rode the car until it crashed.  Dell and Emil were not hurt.  Sam Good is buried at Phillips Cemetery at Travis.  Most of his brothers and sisters are buried there.