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Alfred Merton Hebert, Jr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana
From Tallulah Madison Journal August 8, 1930

TWO KILLED AT MOUND WHEN CRANE FALLS

Alfred Merton Hebert, aged 31, and Samuel Tidmore (Tidwell?), aged 41, were killed instantly at 
Mound Friday shortly before noon when a huge crane which was being operated to lift heavy machinery 
from a flat car, turned over, crushing them lifeless.

The men were employed by the Fred M. Crane Company, levee contractors who are unloading heavy levee 
building machinery at Mound, preparatory to beginning work on a levee near Mound. It was stated that 
Hebert had just gone to work for the company, having reported for the first time Friday shortly before 
he met his death.

Robert Farris, Superintendent of the Crane Company, secured an undertaker and the bodies were 
prepared for interment, which took place in Tallulah Saturday.

Hebert, who was raised near Tallulah, had been home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Herbert 
for some time before going to work for the levee building company. Tidwell was engaged in farming 
near Mound and it is said that he raised a good crop last year.

Hebert is survived by his mother, and father, one sister, Mrs. Leonora Powell and a brother, Clyde Hebert, 
who is at present in the navy. Tidwell leaves a wife and one daughter.

From Tallulah Madison Journal August 15, 1930

Alfred Merton Hebert, Jr., son of A. M. Hebert and Gussie Slack Hebert of Tallulah, came to an untimely 
death through accidental causes Friday morning, August 8 at Mound.

He was born August 27, 1899 and from his birth has claimed Tallulah as his home. He attended Tallulah 
public school and worked with his father0 until he joined the U. S. Army on September 29, 1919. He was 
stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia from whence he was soon transferred to Camp Gordon, Georgia, MTC 
Fifth Division; was transferred September 1, 1920 to Camp Jackson, South Carolina, where he took special 
training for two years in the Motor Command Division. Upon application he was transferred December 22, 1921 
to the detached enlisted men's list, and was assigned to Auburn Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 
as instructor in motor assembly and repair work. Having received honorable discharge October 1, 1925, he 
found work at various tasks in Birmingham, Ala. And Natchez, Miss. until the past three months which time 
was spent quietly with his parents. Could he and they have foreseen events as they have happened the manner 
of these past three months would have been ordered differently.

Merton leaves his father, his mother, a sister, Mrs. Leonora Powell of Tallulah, and a brother, Clyde M. Hebert, 
who is taking special X-Ray training in the U. S. Navy Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.

Funeral services were conducted from the family residence by the  Rev. W. H. Giles, pastor of First Methodist 
Church, Saturday evening, August 9, at three o'clock. Members of Tallulah Lodge No. 308, F. & A. M., acted 
as pall bearers and rendered Masonic honors through interment services at Silver Cross Cemetery.