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1914 News Articles

Herman Heck

FOURTEEN-YEAR OLD LAD BREAKS THIGH IN FALL AT JENNINGS
SCHOOL.

Monday afternoon as he was starting home from the Jennings
school, Herman Heck, the 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Heck, of 6 miles north of Farmington, caught one of
his feet in a crevice in the rock steps at the school
house and fell, breaking his right thigh between the knee
and hip joint. A near neighbor was summoned who came and
took the unfortunate lad to his home. Dr. Robinson was
called in and set the broken bones. He reports him doing
as well as could be expected. It was a very painful as
well as unusual accident.
[local newspaper clipping]

Note: The above clipping came to me undated. Herman
Heck, according to his obituary, was born October 14,
1900. He died Dec. 30, 1972, and served for one term as
Sheriff of St. Francois County. He was married to Alpha
(Mitchell) who survived him.
[submitted by B. Warner]