McLeansboro Times-Leader December 4, 1941

Dr. E. E. Osburn, aged 58, prominent Broughton physician, died at the Ferrell hospital in Eldorado, Illinois, early Monday morning, December 1, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident last Friday night.  Pneumonia was given as the direct cause of his death.

According to an account of the accident, Dr. Osburn and Clyde Driscoll, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Driscoll, of Broughton, were enroute to their homes in Broughton from Eldorado, when the automobile in which they were riding failed to make the turn at the intersection of Benton and State Streets, in Eldorado, climbed an embankment and crashed into a tree.

  The car was demolished and Dr. Osburn suffered extensive lacerations about the face, a compound facture of the right thigh and shock.  Driscoll also sustained several lacerations about the face, and is suffering from a possible skull fracture and shock.  The accident occurred at about 8:30 o'clock Friday night.

Dr. Osburn had been a physician at Broughton since 1904, and during those 37 years had made numerous friends throughout Hamilton County.  He is survived by his wife, Ella, and three daughters, Mrs. Carrol (Martha) Maas, of Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. Scott (Blanche) York, of Springfield, Ill., and Mrs. Walter (Jane) Schroeder, of Bonne Terre, Mo.  Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Lura B. Latham, of Eldorado, Ill., and Mrs. Clyde Pemberton, of Livingston, Mont., and a brother Miles Osburn, of Broughton, Ill.

Funeral services were held at the Osburn residence in Broughton Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. W. E. Bennett, of Mt. Carmel.  Interment took place in the Hickory Hill Cemetery, near Broughton.

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