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Date Published: July 26, 2009
50 YEARS AGO – 1959
Week of Sept. 4-11
Two accidents less than a week apart took the lives of three Sumter men. The first occurred early on the morning of Friday, Sept. 4 on Alice Drive just outside the city limits. Killed in the pickup truck crash were Chalmers Ray Ardis, 37, driver of the truck, and his passenger, James Bartow Kolb, 28. Officers said the driver lost control of the truck on a curve and turned over several times, throwing the men over 30 feet from the vehicle. Ardis, who was in the vending business, was a native of Pinewood, and is survived by his mother and wife, his son and a daughter, five brothers and four sisters. Kolb, a graduate of Edmunds High School, was a veteran of four years service in the U.S. Air Force and was a student at the School of Pharmacy at the University of South Carolina, working part-time at Iris Drugs and Broad Street Pharmacy. He is survived by his father and stepmother.
On Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 12:30 a.m., Brainard Eugene Cox, 22, a passenger on a motorcycle driven by Paul Pierson, 23, was killed when the cycle struck a utility pole guy wire on the curve at 545 N. Purdy St. near Broad Street, hurling him 38 feet to his death. Pierson suffered only minor injuries. Cox is survived by his mother, five brothers and a sister. Pierson was home on leave from the U.S. Navy, visiting his mother.
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1922 - 1959 (37 years)
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