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- Hedges – Ernest, entered into rest Monday, age 43 pears, father of Pearly June, Robert and Joan Hedges; son of Mrs. Sarah E. Eaker and Dudley Hedges, brother of Robert and Earl Eaker. Services Friday, 2 p.m., at Second Free Methodist church, Pershing and Wilkins sts. Friends may call at Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel until noon Friday. Burial Floral Park cemetery.
The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana. Wednesday, 23 July 1941.
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- Fire Levels Home Jobless Man Built Himself; Climaxes Year of Bad Luck
By Heze Clark, Times Staff Writer
This is the first day that Ernest Hedges has broken into headlines.
His home, at 803 Sadie-st, burned down, and the fire department made such a clatter going there that people wondered what had happened.
Well, that’s about all there is to it, so far as Ernest Hedges is concerned. The oil stove exploded, and the two-room frame house he built with his own trained hands from lumber he salvaged burned to the ground.
Two suits were burned, too, and in the pocket of one of them was “410, his total savings since last January and his only cash laid away against the coming winter.
Two hundred cans of food he grew in his garden this summer and canned himself over that perfidious oil stove also exploded and were ruined. That was the food he had against the winter.
Ernest Hedges is 37. He is the father of three children, two of whom are ill with tuberculosis in Sunnyside Sanatorium. The other, Robert, 4, lives next door at 823 Sadie-st with Mrs. Sarah Eaker, his grandmother.
Mrs. Eaker is the mother of Mrs. Hedges who died of tuberculosis 10 months ago, after Ernest, a carpenter before the depression, had finally constructed the little house that burned today and had hoped that in it she would regain her health.
Then Pearly, 5, and Joan, 2, became ill and were taken to the sanatorium. Then Ernest lost his FERA job and had to give up Robert.
He has a horse and with that plowed the gardens, hauled ashes and did odd jobs and made enough money to support himself, and miraculously to save some.
It was while he ws trying to catch the horse in the pasture today that the stove exploded and burned his home. Firemen save the home of the horse, a shed on the rear of the lot.
While the ruins still smouldered, and lines of smoke wove through the crumpled steel bestead, Ernest hedges took a stoical look and went off to find a place to stay until –
Well, no one thought to ask him until what?
The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Indiana. Thursday, 25 July 1935, page 1.
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- Wounded in Quarrel
(International News Service)
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 10 – Ernest Hedges, 29, was shot and slightly wounded by his step-father, William Eaker, 55, in a quarrel over a wagon here today. Police found that Eaker fired a load of birdshot at Hedges several of the pellets found their marks in the younger man.
The Times, Munster, Indiana. Friday, 10 December 1926, page 1.
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- Indianapolis – Despite insistence that he fed his calf and donkey from the seventy-five gallons of mash unearthed at his home Ernest Hedges, 28, was arrested on a blind tiger charge.
Evansville Press, Evansville, Indiana. Saturday, 25 April 1925, page 7.
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- Want ads.
Personals section
Want board for boy with dependable family, near school. Earnest Hedges, 803 S. Sadie st.
The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana. Wednesday, 18 August 1937.
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- News of the Courts
Superior Court. Room 1
93031. Ernest Hedges vs. Ethel Hedges. Divorce. Albert L. Fishman.
The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana. Saturday, 3 April 1937, page 18.
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- Two Persons Die In Crash Near Monrovia
Mrs. Laverne Eaker and Ernest Hedges were victim of accident Monday night.
Car Struck Tree at Curve
Two others were severely injured and were taken to the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis
Mrs. Laverne Eaker, age 27, and Ernest Hedges, age 27, were instantly killed about 11:30 o’clock Monday night when the car in which they were riding failed to negotiate a curve safely on road 42 east of Monrovia near the Sedwick farm, and crashed into a tree.
Mrs. Edna Lovall and Mr. Eaker were seriously injured and were taken to the Methodist hospital in the ambulance of E.F. Harvey, Mooresville funeral director. Mrs. Lovall suffered a broken femur bone, dislocated hip and cuts on her face. Her condition is considered critical. Mr. Eaker’s injuries were not so serious.
The Eakers address is 827 South Sadies street, Indianapolis.
E.F. Harvey, undertaker, and Dr. Kenneth Comer, both of Mooresville, were summoned to the scene of the accident. When they arrived they found Mrs. Eaker dead, lying across the lap of her husband in the front seat of the car. The husband was unconscious.
Hedges and Mrs. Lovall were in the rear seat. He was dead, and Mrs. Lovel was also unconscious. An examination disclosed that she had suffered a broken femur bone, a dislocated hip and cuts on the face. Her condition is reported critical.
Eakers was bruised and cut, but his condition is not considered dangerous.
The bodies of Mrs. Eaker and Hedges were brought to the Cure & Hensley undertaking parlors in this city and this morning were taken to the Harry Moore funeral home in Indianapolis.
Sheriff Ray Rainwater was called but the injured persons had been taken away when he arrived at the scene.
Hedges died of a fractured skull and broken neck and Mrs. Eaker’s neck was also broken.
Dr. Leon Gray, county coroner, conducted an inquest and gave his verdict as death by accident.
Hedges is the son of Dudley Hedges of Indianapolis.
Mrs. Eaker is the daughter of Theodore Strate, of Indianapolis. It is understood here that the Eakers have three children.
A card found on the body of Hedges gave his address ad Martinsville R.R.6, but Undertaker Harvey was informed that he was a resident of Indianapolis.
The car, a 1934 Ford two door, was badly damaged and was taken to a garage in Mooresville.
The Reporter-Times, Martinsville, Indiana. Tuesday, 22 July 1941, page 1.
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- Crash Kills Two on Monrovia Road
Two Indianapolis persons were injured fatally and two other injured seriously early yesterday when their automobile careened off Ind. 42 east of Monrovia, near the J.L. Martin farm, and crashed against a tree.
Mrs. Laverne Eaker, 27 years old, 823 Sadie street, and Ernest Hedges, 44, formerly of 801 Sadie street, were killed instantly.
Earl Eaker, 28, husband of Mrs. Eaker and half brother of Mr. Hedges, suffered sever cuts and bruises. Mrs. Edna Lovall, 38, Corrill street, a friend of the others were injured seriously.
State police, who investigated the accident, said Mr. Eaker, driver of the car, failed to negotiate a turn in the road and lost control of the car.
Brought to City Hospital
Mr. Eaker and Mrs. Lovall were brought to the City Hospital. Bodies of Mrs. Eaker and Mr. Hedges were returned to Indianapolis yesterday. Mr. Hedges moved from Indianapolis recently and was farming in Morgan county.
He is survived by three children, Pearly June Hedges, Robert Hedges and Joan Hedges, who make their home with a grandmother here; his stepfather, Dedly Eaker, and two half-brothers, Earl Eaker and Robert Eaker, all of Indianapolis.
Surviving Mrs. Eaker, besides her husband, are three children, May Eaker, Earl Eaker Jr., and Raymond Eaker; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Strate of Indianapolis, and a brother, Robert Strate, who is in the army at Fort Warren Wyo.
Double funeral services for Mrs. Eaker and Mr. Hedges will be at __ o’clock Friday afternoon at the Second Free Methodist Church. Both wil be buried in Floral Park Cemetery.
Newspaper clipping from Find a Grave, no publication information available.
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- Goes To Trial On Grave Charge
Indianapolis man, Earl Eaker, is defendant other court news
Earl Eaker was on trial today before Judge O’Harrow on the grave charge of reckless homicide while under the influence of intoxicants.
The case grew out of a fatal crash near the Sedwick place east of Monrovia the night of July 21, 1941. Eaker was arrested on a grand jury indictment. It was charged that while under the influence of liquor he drove his car recklessly and while going to high speed he crashed into a tree. His wife, Laverne Eaker, and his half-brother, Ernest Hedges was killed in the wreck. The parties were all from Indianapolis.
Prosecutor Foley represents the state in the trial and Attorney Gilbert Butler appears for the defendant.
It was expected that the case would be concluded during the day.
The Reporter-Times, Martinsville, Indiana. Tuesday, 22 December 1942, page 1.
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