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Note: AUGUSTA CHRONICLE Friday Morning January 29, 1954 Vol CLXX No 29 p. 1 Found dying in car _______________ Mrs. J. E. Eubanks funeral to be held this afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. J. E. Eubanks, 55, prominent local visiting yeacher and clubwoman, who died en route to the Aiken County hospital early yesterday morning, will be conducted today at 4p,m,, at St. James Methodist church, with the Rev. Frank Q. Echols officiating. Interment will follow in Westover cemetery. The popular Augustan who had been missing fron her home since last Friday, was discovered unconscious in her parked car about seven miles southwest of Aiken, just off the Pine Log road, at approximately 7:30 a.m., yesterday by Matthew Key, a Clearwater millworker, who was returning home from work. Key told a Chronicle reporter, that he recognized Mrs. Eubanks' car, and upon seeing a length of garden hose running from the exhaust through th ventilator glass of the front window into the interior of the car, ran a short distance across a field to the home of Ralph Ennis to summon help. He and Ennis then drove to the homeof Mrs. Eubank's brother-in-law, Marshall Galloway, and the three of them returned to the parked vehicle, the motor of which was running. When the three men arrived at the car they foun Mrs. Eubanks on he floor next to the front seat. When it was found that she was still breathing, the men placed her in Ennis; car and rushed her to the Aiken County hospital, where she was pronounced dead upon arrival. Near old home place The death occurred within a stone's throw of he Eubanks' home place, which is being rented by Ennis and his family. Aiken and Augusta hospital officials ruled that death was caused by carbon monoxide gas poising after a series of blood tests were made. Coroner James L. Gregory of Aiken county said no inquest would be held. The women, whose friends expressed belief she was suffering a nervous breakdown due to overwork, was last reported seen alive near Johnston Wednesday when a state highway patrolman stopped her for questioning. A widespread search fro Mrs. Eubanks had been under way since last Sunday night, when her husband - accompanied by his minister - visited the home of a Chronicle reported to make a personal appeal for this newspaper's help in locating his missing wife. He asked that her disapperance be given "wide publicty" in the hope that Mrs. Eubanks would see the story and return home. Note found Investigating officers said that a note was found in the front seat of the parked car, stating that she had left a letter for her husband, a local teacher, at their beach residence on the Isle of Palms. The woman's brother-in-law, B. H. Eubanks motored to Charleston late yesterday to pick up the message. The contents of the letter could not be learned late last night. Born Frances Stackhouse in Greenwoof, S. C., the daughter of a Methodist minister, she lived in many towns and cities in her native state as she traveled to various curches where her father was called to serve. She came to Augusta in 1919 one week after her marriage to J. E. Eubanks, also a South Carolinlan and former resident of Aiken.
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