THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, February 7, 1929

 

Roy D. Burrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Burrell of the Haw Creek section, and an employee of the Southern Bell Telephone Company died at a hospital in Sumter, S. C., Monday, after sustaining a fractured skull in an auto wreck on the Waynesville road three miles east of Sumter.

Burrell, driving his own car and Eugene King were returning from Florence about midnight when the accident occurred at a sharp curve in the road. The car went head on into a ditch and turned over. Both men were taken to the hospital by a passing car. King was not badly hurt and left the hospital that day.

King said he was asleep and did not know anything of the crash until he regained consciousness in the hospital. Both men were members of a gang of Southern Bell Telephone employees at Sumter. Burrell had been with the Bell Company for three years.

The body was brought to Baggett & Wetherby Company's funeral parlors in Daytona Beach where services were held Wednesday at 2:30 in the afternoon. Interment was made in the Cedar Hill burial park in Daytona Beach.