Simpson, Bert L. 1880 - 1905

SIMPSON, DAVIS

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 3/25/2013 at 16:10:38

Postville Review, Fri., 21 July 1905. (condensed).

Death, the last enemy, and the silent causeway through which the living pass to the realization of that which lies beyond its portals - death, which locks the blood in the veins, chills the life current and palsies the throbbing heart, and brings the sadness of a last farewell to the loved ones and friends, came to Bert L. Simpson, at Clark Hospital, McGregor, Iowa, at about 11 o'clock on Sunday morning July 16, 1905, after a few days suffering from a most shocking accident. He was born in Post township, Allamakee Co., Iowa, June 2, 1880, and at the time of his death was aged 25 years, one month and 14 days. He leaves a mother, sister, half-brother, half-sister and many friends to mourn his loss.

He was an extrordinary young man in many ways and this sudden and unusually sad closing of such a life strikes sorrow that borders on terror to the hearts of a great host of friends. Everything was done for his comfort that could be done, but death was inevitable. So we all bow and pray that we may rightly fit into the great experience of life.

Bert L. Simpson was an exemplary young man in many ways - honest, upright, industrious, kind. Upon the death of his father a few months ago he assumed the conduct of the farm for his widowed mother, and it was while pursuing this self-imposed duty that he met with the sad accident which caused his death just as he was entering upon manhood's morn. Friends he numbered by his acquaintances all of whom sorrow over his untimely passing and sympathize most sincerely with the broken hearted mother at home, who within a few months time has been doubly bereft.

The funeral was held from the home two and a half miles east of Postville on Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock, conducted by Rev. Montgomery and Postville Lodge No. 280, M.B.A., and was largely attended. Interment was made in Grand Meadow cemetery by the side of the father, and the more than mile long procession of sorrowing friends which followed the remains to their last resting place fully attested the high esteem in which deceased was held.

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Postville Review, Fri., 14 July 1905.

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT, Bert Simpson Receives Awful Internal Injuries Last Eveniny by Falling On a Pitchfork.

Bert Simpson, a son of the late W. M. Simpson, met with a most fearful and unusual accident about 7 o'clock last evening at the farm home of his mother in Post township, about two and one half miles east of Postville. The facts as near as we are able to learn are as follows:

Bert had just finished a hard day's work in the hay field, and after putting a last load in the barn before supper, he concluded to pull the hay rope into the mow to avoid its getting wet in case of rain. Sticking the tines of the fork in the ground with the handle leaning against the rounds of a ladder which extended from the ground to the mouth of the mow, he started to scale the ladder, and when near the top it is supposed his feet slipped and he was precipitated violently toward the ground, his body coming in contact with the blunt end of the fork handle with such velocity as to force it into the rectum a distance of eight inches, causing terrible internal injuries and the most excruciating suffering possible.

Dr. Flynn was hastily summoned by telephone and seeing the seriousness of the case hastily sent for a team and cot and the unfortunate young man was conveyed at once to town and taken to the Clark hospital at McGregor by train, accompanied by his mother and the doctor, and where everything possible is being done for Bert's comfort, though reports this morning are to the effect that the chances are many to one against his recovery.

Bert Simpson is a splendid young man in every way, about 25 years of age, and the mainstay of his widowed mother in the conduct of the farm, and with friends innumerable the Review joins in the hope that his life may be spared.

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Postville Review, Fri., 1 Sept. 1905.

Mrs. W. M. Simpson has purchased the Henry Schuette residence in the northeast part of Postville and with her soninlaw and wife, Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, will occupy it.

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Submitter is not related.

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