OBITUARY OF DAN O'DANIEL
The Big Sandy News
March 20, 1942

Dan O'Daniel, 23 of Adeline, whose body was found in his stalled automobile on 
the Bear Creek road Monday morning, died of monoxide poisoning according tothe 
verdict of a jury summoned by Coroner H. S. Young.  O'Daniel, employed at the 
Internation Nickel Company plant in Huntington, had spent the week end with his 
mother, Mrs. John Ruggles at Adeline, and had left her home at 3:30 a.m. Monday 
to return to his work. The auto, with the motor and heater still running, was 
found with the rear wheels mired in the mud and the exhaust pipe covered by mud 
and water, causing the man to be overcome by the exhaust fumes. Sheriff Arch 
Thompson and Deputy Gerrard Preston, who investigated the tragedy, said 
O'Daniels had gone to the home of a nearby resident to get a team to pull his 
car out, but that no men were at home.  He had tried to use his auto jack to 
get the car out, and it was still laying beside the car.  He evidently got back 
into the car to warm and wait until daylight, and was quickly overcome by 
fumes. Funeral for the young man was conducted Wednesday at the Newcomb church 
and interment was made in the Harmon cemetery on Long Branch.     Deceased was 
a son of the late David O'Daniel and was reared on Long Branch, near Fallsburg. 
After the death of his father his mother married John Ruggles and now lives at 
Adeline.  Besides the mother, he is survived by two sisters, Miss Mildred 
O'Daniel, at home, and Mrs. Thomas Collinsworth, of  Huntington."
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