Fairfield Recorder - Friday, October 8, 1926 edition

FREESTONE BOY ACCIDENTLY KILLED
Ernest Cherry, aged 16, died in Crockett Saturday shortly after being injured
while riding on the fender of an auto. Reports are that Ernest, who had been
picking cotton near Crockett was coming to town and several being in the car,
he was ridding on the fender. In the outskirts of Crockett a car traveling at a
rapid rate knocked the boy from the fender and he fell about 40 feet away. He
was so badly injured, death soon resulted. The car that struck him did not
stop, but it is reported that an arrest was made. Ernest was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Cherry of Steward Mills. His body was brought here and buried in the
Woodland Cemetery near Kirvin.