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Chase County Obituaries
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Walker, Aaron Jr.
A second tragedy occurred last week, following the death of Mrs. John B. Glanville in a motor car accident near Florence last Tuesday morning, when the little four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Walker was almost instantly killed about 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon when he was run over by a binder.
The Aaron Walker family lives on the William Brothers farm near Cedar Point. Mr. Walker and his son, Wilbur, were cutting wheat on the Frank Williams farm. Wilbur was driving the tractor and Mr. Walker was on the binder, drawn by the tractor.
Junior, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walker, had gone to the field with the men and had begged his brother for a ride on the tractor. He had been permitted to stand on the tractor platform just back of the driver’s seat. In some manner he lost his balance and fell from the tractor directly in the path of the binder. Before he could get out of the path of the binder or the tractor could be stopped, the boy was struck in the head by the master-wheel of the binder. One of the heavy cleats of the wheel crushed his skull and he died almost instantly.
Mr. Walker saw the boy fall to his death but was powerless to save him. He called frantically to Wilbur on the factor to stop the machine but his voice was lost in the noise of the tractor and the binder.
Junior Walker was born on the Clover Cliff ranch near Elmdale April 2, 1928. For many years the Walker family lived on the Clover Cliff ranch where Mr. Walker was engaged in farming. Three years ago the family moved to the Williams Brothers farm near Cedar Point. Junior was the next to youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Walker. His parents and brothers and sisters are heartbroken over the terrible accident. Besides his parents, Junior is survived by two sisters and six brothers.
The funeral services were held from the Cedar Valley church at Homestead at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon, June 18. The Rev. N. J. Croft, pastor of the Cedar Point and Clements churches, preached the sermon, and interment was in the Homestead cemetery.
Aaron Junior Walker, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Walker, of Cedar Point, was born April 2, 1928, on the Clover Cliff ranch near Elmdale, About half past three in the afternoon of June 16, 1982, he feel asleep in Jesus, at the age of four years, two months, and fourteen days.
Besides his stricken parents, his loss is mourned by two sisters, Ruby and Hazel; six brothers, Willard, Ralph, Archie, Allen, Dean, and Vern; his grandmother, Mrs. Smith Walker, and many other relatives and friends.
Junior will always be remembered for his cheerful ways and happy disposition.
Funeral services, under the direction of the minister of the Cedar Point Federated church, were held at the home and at Cedar Valley Baptist church, and burial was at Homestead cemetery.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, June 16, 1932.
A tragic accident occurred Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock when Aaron Walker, Jr., 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Walker of Clements, was run over and killed by the bull-wheel of a binder. The side of the child’s head was crushed by the wheel and he died within a few minutes.
The child was in the wheat field of Frank Williams, west of Clements, when the accident happened. The boy’s father and oldest brother were operating a tractor and binder, cutting wheat, the father on the binder and Willard, the oldest son, on the tractor. The little boy had begged to be allowed to ride on the tractor to the end of the row so he wouldn’t have so far to walk home.
At first those working on the machines refused to let him ride. But he finally was given permission and had ridden about 50 feet when he fell from the platform of the tractor in front of the binder. Willard, busy driving the tractor, did not notice his brother had fallen and he could not hear the screams of his father. The father was unable to get to the little boy before the wheel had run over the side of his head.
Aaron, Jr., was born April 2, 1928, on the Clover Cliff Ranch where the Walker family lived for a number of years. He is survived by his parents, six brothers and two sisters. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Cedar Valley Baptist church, and burial was in the Homestead cemetery. Rev. J. N. Croft of Clements was in charge of the services.
The Walker family lives in the frame house, across the railroad tracks south of the Henry Williams home on highway 50S, about four miles west of Clements.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, June 22, 1932.
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