Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Sunday, January 5, 1964

Horse Kicks Youth Fatally Near Natchez

NATCHEZ, Miss. (Special) -- Roland Arnold, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Arnold of the Cranfield Community eight miles north of Natchez, was fatally kicked by a horse at 7 a.m. Saturday.

Lonnie Davis, owner of the Cranfield Store, said the accident occurred at a horse lot at the rear of his store. He said young Arnold was assisting him in placing a saddle on the horse.

Arnold struck the horse with his cap, Davis said, and the animal kicked the teenager in the chest. Davis said he rushed Arnold to the Jeff Davis Memorial Hospital here, but that the youth was dead on arrival from chest injuries.

An inquest was held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Laird Funeral Home by Adams County Coroner R. E. Smith. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death "as a result of having been kicked by a horse."

Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. today at the Providence Baptist Church in Franklin County near Meadville, Miss. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

In addition to his parents, he is survived by a brother, Paul Arnold of Cranfield; two sisters, Mrs. Linnie Lee Ervin [sic Erwin], Union Church, Miss., and Mrs. Daisy Ladney [sic Ladner], Meadville, Miss.