HICKS, David M. - Putnam

David M. Hicks of New Market died on Thursday evening of last week from the effects of being run over with a wagon loaded with brick.

Source: Crawfordsville Journal, Friday, Nov 13, 1903

Lying at the road side near the McCalip home, one mile east of New Market, was found the apparently dead body of David M. Hicks Thursday evening, about 7 his face crushed to an unrecognizable mass. Mr. Hicks, whose home is in New Market, drove to this city with a load of lumber and spending the day here started Thursday evening for his home with a load of brick, arriving just in front of the McCalip home, he in some unaccountable manner fell from the wagon, his head being under the wagon wheel. While it did not appraently run over it the face and bones of the face and head were crushed into an unrecognizable jelly. It was but a few moment s until two gentlemen drove by and noticed the form of a man ly ing at the road side. Stopping he was taken in the buggy to his home, where Dr. Beatty was called, but medical aid was of no avail and without regaining cnosciousness Mr. Hicks died at 9 o'clock. Mr. Hicks was one of the oldest and best known residents of new Market, being 70 years old. He leaves a wife and 5 children: Mrs. Robert Long of this city; Mrs. JW Price of Covington; Mrs. Bettie E. Lewis of Bainbridge; WP Hicks of Lebanon and JJ Hicks of New Market. The funeral will be at the home Saturday at 1 o'clock, interment at Indian Creek Cemetery.