J.W. Crump, 72, Is First Accident Victim Of Year
Funeral services for James William Crump, 72, of the Cone community, were held in the Cone Baptist church at 2 p.m. Sunday, with Rev. Barton, pastor, officiating. Burial was in the Cone cemetery.
Mr. Crump long-time resident of Crosby county, died at 4:30 a.m. Sunday in the Crosbyton hospital following a brain injury received in a car and truck collision near Cone Jan. 8. He was the first traffic fatality for 1951 on the South Plains.
Mr. Crump was enroute to Ralls to visit a physician when his 1935 Ford coach crashed into the side of a 1946 Ford truck driven by Charles Elton Stevens, employee of J. R. Fanning Construction Co. The accident occurred on a dirt road approximately two miles west of Cone.
Texas Highway patrolmen who investigated the accident said the mishap apparently occurred when Stevens attempted to avoid a head-on collision with Crump's car, which apparently had swerved into the wrong lane of traffic. They reported that when Crump swung his car back into the right lane of traffic his automobile collided with the side of the truck which had also swerved aside to miss Crump's car.
He was brought to the Crosbyton hospital by a Marr ambulance. Hospital attendants said he only regained consciousness once or twice before he died Sunday morning.
Crump has been a resident of Crosby county for 43 years, moving to the Cone community from Knox county. He is an uncle of Owen Crump of this city.
Survivors include his wife, Amanda; a daughter, Miss D. Crump; two brothers, Frank of Abernathy and Ed of Ralls; two sisters, Mrs. R. L. Riddling of Texline, and Mrs. T.B. Burgess of Canyon.
The Crosbyton Review, Thursday, January 18, 1951
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