Sadly Samuel William was killed in an automobile accident in Wellsville at the age of 17. From The Belmont Dispatch of Thursday August 6, 1964: "Samuel Chrimes of Wellsville, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Dudley Chrimes, was killed Sunday, August 2, 1964, when the car in which he was riding left the road and overturned. Two others in the car, Leon James Cole, Jr., the driver and Philip Duke, both of Wellsville are hospitalized with injuries. Survivors, besides his parents, include a sister, M▮▮▮ L▮▮ Chrimes, a student at Ithaca College; and a half brother, Theodore Chrimes of Williamsville, and a half sister, Mrs. Lucretia Green of Geneseo. Funeral services were held Wednesday in the Dye and Wildman Funeral Home at Wellsville with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery." |