This is transcribed in the interest of Johnnie Coats genealogy, and history. It is transcribed as it was written. ---------------------------------------------------- Clarke County Democrat, Grove Hill, Alabama October 26, 1939, page 1 Young Negro Killed In Pick-Up Truck Wreck Johnnie Coats, a young negro man of Dickinson, Ala., was killed instantly early Thursday morning when a pick-up truck in which he was riding was side-swiped by a heavily loaded timber truck. Robert Bradford, young white man, had started to West Bend with a carload of laborers for the Scotch Lumber Company. He was traveling the Grove Hill-Fulton road and when about a mile and a half outside of this town, started to turn into the new Grove Hill-Thomasville road. As he did so the timber truck struck the rear end of his car, changing ends with it and flinging the Coats negro out into the road. Parties who investigated the accident said the truck wheels evidently passed over his body, as he died almost instantly and evidence pointed to his body having been crushed. Les Allen, another Dickinson negro, was flung completely across the road against at the opposite bank, sustaining a fractured hip and a broken rib. The timber truck was owned by W. L. Williams, of Thomasville, and was bound for Mobile with a load of green lumber. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.