This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/8040 Message Board Post: Family Of 3 Burn to Death In Accident Three members of a Santa Clara family were killed 4 miles east of Mojave last Monday morning on Hwy. 466 when their car possibly hit the shoulder of the road, buckling the front wheel and rolling end over end. James Curtis Seabury, his wife Minnie and Karen Sue, 2, daughter were, the victims who were burned almost beyond recognition when the car caught fire after the accident. James O. Van Meter, California Highway Patrol and Sgt. Dave King of the sheriff's office investigated and said identification was made only through the car's registration since papers found on one of the bodies had two different spellings of the name. The car was heading west on Hwy. 466 when the tragedy occurred. Marks showed the car had skidded for at least one hundred feet before turning over and coming to rest on the east lane of the highway blocking traffic for more than one hour. A passing motorist notified the authorities which in turn alerted an ambulance from the O'Donnell Funeral Home as well as fire fighting equipment. Kern County Coroner office is investigating and this is being held up pending the arrival of Mr. Seabury's mother from Alabama and Mrs. Seabury's mother from Oklahoma City. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 14 Jun 1956