Herbert Clifton Hargrove was born on April 19, 1913 in Trigg County, Kentucky. He was the oldest of eight children born to John Henry Hargrove and Dora Ellen Battoe Hargrove. John Henry was a farmer and a state highway department worker and both he and Dora were natives of Trigg County. Herbert was a descendant of Charity S. Bridges.
Herbert’s siblings were Jesse Woodrow Hargrove, born in 1915 and married Eva Lorene Atwood; Hershel Linsley Hargrove, born in 1918 and married Mary Elizabeth Baker; Mabel Lucille Hargrove, born in 1920 and married Roscoe Bradley Sutton; Martha Louise Hargrove, born in 1921 and married William Lynn Maddox; Katie Marie Hargrove, born in 1924 and married Rudolph Ray McDowell; Dora Ernestine Hargrove, born in 1929 and married Herbert Amos P’Pool; and Robert Hunt Hargrove, born in 1926 and married Ruby C. Gibson and later married Constance M. Wyperd.
Herbert grew up in Trigg County on the Dover Road where his father worked on a farm and later went to work for the state highway department. He received a basic elementary level of education.
On December 31, 1939, Herbert married Virginia Mae Daniel. Virginia was born on February 14, 1912 in Trigg County and was the daughter of John G. Daniel and Dana Puckett Daniel.
After their marriage, Herbert and Virginia lived in Crittenden County, Kentucky with his parents and Herbert worked as a mechanic on large dump trucks used to carry huge loads of crushed rocks from rock quarries.
On the late afternoon of Friday, November 22, 1940, Herbert was working with the quarry dump truck as usual. He was at the J. B. Alexander Rock Quarry in Marion, Kentucky. Herbert and two other men, L. D. Marshall and Guy Guess, both of Marion were working under the raised dump truck bed oiling the hoisting apparatus. The loaded dump truck suddenly tripped itself and poured more than a ton of crushed rock on the three men. All three were severely injured. Herbert, however, suffered the worst injury as the truck bed had struck his head, trapping him underneath the bed. The bed which weighed about 2000 pounds caused a fractured skull. An ambulance was called for Herbert and he was being transported to a hospital in Evansville, Indiana when he was pronounced dead in the ambulance when it was in Sturgis, Kentucky. Marshall was admitted to the Evansville hospital in serious condition with a crushed chest and a broken right arm. Guess only suffered slight injuries.
Herbert and Virginia were the parents of one child, Lynda Jane Hargrove, who was born in January 1941 approximately two months after her father’s death. She married Kenneth Deryl Locke and later married Herbert Showalter.
Herbert was 27 years old at the time of his death. He is buried in the East End Cemetery in Cadiz. Virginia died at the age of 80 on July 2, 1993 in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. She was buried in the East End Cemetery next to Herbert.
Herbert and Virginia tombstone
LINEAGE: (Herbert Clifton Hargrove was the son of John Henry and Dora Ellen Battoe Hargrove. Dora was the third child of John Edwin and Malinda Hawkins Battoe. John was the first child of James J. and Charity S. Bridges Battoe. Charity was the tenth child of William and Mary Thomas Bridges. William was the fourth child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges.)
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