This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ya.2ADI/606.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There are no pictures in the Tad Evans Books Jan 26, 1950-------Two dodge County men were killed instantley Sat afternoon at 4:30 near McRae wihen a Special Buick sedan crashed into a truck loaded with iron pipe and tumbled down a 15 foot fill. Two others riding in the Buick were seriously injured and are patients at the Dublin Veterans Hospital. The dead are Johnny Cheek, 28, Canuncey verteran teacher and son of Mr and Mrs Charlie B Cheek, and Robert (Bob) Wilson, 41, of Chauncey, son of Mr and Mrs P B Wilson. Injured are Henry J Brown, 31, also of Chauncey, and William B Dykes, 28, of Henlena. Brown has not yet fully regained consciousness, it was reported here today. He suffered severe head injuries.Dykes, at first thought only slightly injured, has developed complications, it is said, and is swelling internally. Excessive speed is attributed by highway patrolmen as the cause of the crash. The men had been to Payne's Sawmill, a few miles from McRae on the Dublin highway, to make plans for produring lumber for a potato hot bed, it is said, and were riding in Cheek's car with him driving. On their return, patrolmen said, the car approached the overpass near Omulgee Park at a high rate of speed, and Cheek, the driver, could not hold it on his side of the road as the car went into the long curve on the opposite side. The vehicle careened to the left side of the road, struck the big truck, driven by Benjamin Leroy, of Augusta, bounced off the truck;s rear dual wheels and plunged down the overpass fill, according to reports. The overpass is approximately two miles from McRae and takes traffic over the Seaboard tracks. Also in same issue or paper was his orbit. Funeral services for Johnny Cheek, 25, killed in the auto-truck crash near McRae Sat. afternoon at 4;30, were conducted at Old Daniel Church Mon. afternoon at 3:30 pm by Rev. Max O'Neal and Rev Michaelson. Songs were rendered by Mrs Wiley Hargrove and Mrs Felix Stuckey, accompanied by Mrs Malone Pace. Pallbearers were: Wall Thompson, Woodrow Bryant, James Studstill, Earl Studstill, Tommy Willcox, Jimmy Lee Willcox and Cheek Davis. Interment was in the churchyard cementery, with Martin-Peacock Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mr Cheek attended Rhine High School. He later entered the University of GA from which he graduated. Upon his return to the county, he was employed as a veteran teacher at Chauncey High School. During the recent war he served with the Navy. Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Marjorie Harrell, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jake D Harrell of Eastman; his parents Charlie and Nannie Willcox Cheek; a daughter Bonnie Jo; one brother, Charlie Norman Cheek of Dodge County; four sisters, Miss Alice Cheek, Atlanta; Mrs John L Hancock, Jr., Bay City,Texas; Mrts George C Pace, Port Orange, Fla, and Mrs Melvin C Yeich, Phiadelphia, Pa. I only have the books through 1990, so I couldn't look-up the house fire in 1995. Idid find a marriage announcment for Marge Harrell Cheek. "Thurs, Feb 8 1951... Mr and Mrs Jake D Harrell anounce the marriage of their daughter, Margie Harrell Cheek to David Denneth Foster, son of Mr and Mrs Z K Foster, Thursday, Feb 1, Rev. H B Cross officiating." Bernice