ERNEST DAVID PALMER

Farm Accident Takes Life of Ernest D. Palmer

A farm accident Tuesday evening claimed the life of six-year-old Ernest David Palmer when he was crushed beneath a tractor on his parents’ farm five miles west of Malad.

John A. Evans, Oneida county sheriff who was summoned to the scene, reported that the accident occurred while the tractor was being parked. Jenkin L. Palmer, the boy’s father, gave another son, Tommy 9, permission to drive the tractor across the yard after it had been used for farm work. The victim ran to the tractor and attempted to get on it after it had stopped but had not yet been shut off. As Ernest slipped from the machine and fell behind it the clutch became engaged and the tractor crushed his body as it backed over him.

The boy was born July 7, 1943 at Ogden, Utah, a son of Jenkin L. and Sarah L. Palmer, and was a first grader in the Malad public schools. Survivors include his parents; brother, Tommy; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Ella Thomas, and paternal grandfather, W. H. Palmer, all of Malad.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, at the Malad Reorganized L.D.S. Chapel.

Funeral Services Held For Ernest D. Palmer

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Reorganized LDS church for Ernest D. Palmer, 6, who was accidentally killed May 16, [1950] when crushed by a tractor. Bishop Jess Hughes of the Malad Third ward presided at the services.

Mrs. Pauline Atkinson played the prelude and postlude and accompanied the following musical numbers: duet, Mrs. Fay Hanson and Mrs. Theda[sic] Pilgrim; solo, Elden[sic] Corbridge. The obituary was given by Bishop Hughes; sermon, R. F. Ralston; remarks, W. H. Rutter[sic]; prayer at the home, Joe Palmer; invocation, E. E. Richards; benediction, C. H. Sweeten; scripture reading at the graveside, R. F. Ralston; dedication of the grave E. E. Richards.

Those from out of town attending were: Mr. and Mrs. James Lusk, Mrs. Dean Jones, Joe Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barnett, Mrs. Clyde Watson, Mrs. Rufus Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dalton, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Lewis, Jess Darke[sic], Mr. and Mrs. John Bolingbroke Sr., Morgan Butler, Pocatello; Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Butler, Maxine Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Neilsen[sic], Mr. and Mrs. Harold Thomas, Lava Hot Springs; Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Palmer, Billings, Montana; Mrs. Viola Redford, Joan and Mac Redford, Weiser; Milo T. Means, Mr. and Mrs. James DeChambeau[sic], Dick Dixerson[sic], Boise; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tippin[sic], Tremonton; Mr. and Mrs. Dave Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Burns, Mrs. Bert Whitney, Garland; Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Christensen, Mr. and Mrs. Al Thackeray, Ogden; Mr. and Mrs. Cluff[sic] Petty and boys, Swan Lake; Don V. Gibbs, Sweet Home, Oregon.