Robt. M. Gregg 1873-1935

GREGG, JEFFERS, HANNAH, BALL, WILLER

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 6/28/2017 at 07:50:11

14 March 1935 - The Tipton Advertiser

The home friends in Tipton community were shocked when word reached here last week end of the fatal accident which took the life of Robt. M. Gregg, well known former Tipton business man, who had resided the past few years in Carthage, Illinois.

The account of the fatal mishap, as chronicled in the Carthage Gazette follows:

Carthage was shocked Thursday when the news of the death of R. M. Gregg, 63, manager of the Carthage Implement company, was passed from door to door, and those who had seen Mr. Gregg and talked with him in the morning found it hard to believe.

Going home at noon Thursday, Mr. Gregg entered the house and greeted his family. He went to the cellar way to hang up his hat and coat, carrying on a conversation as he did so. The next thing the family heard was the noise of a fall, and running to the stairway they saw Mr. Gregg lying at the foot of the cellar stairs. He was not conscious.

Dr. Slater was called and after an examination he called for an ambulance and rushed the injured man to Graham hospital in Keokuk. There an x-ray was taken of the skull just before Mr. Gregg died at 1:30.

X-rays showed terrible fractures of the skull, one running from the eye backward to the base of the brain and others crossing the long fracture at frequent intervals. Mr. Gregg must have fallen the full length of the stairs striking on his head, to have inflicted such terrible injuries.

Friends who talked to Mr. Gregg in the morning reported that they had never seen him in better spirits. During the morning he cut his finger on some disc blades and made the remark that this must be an unlucky day for him.

For eight years Mr. Gregg has been manager of the Carthage Implement Co., and is well known throughout the entire county. His business contacts were wide and made him many friends.

The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the shocked and stricken family in their sorrow.

Mr. Gregg was born near Tipton in December 1873, and for many years was interested in the hardware business in this city, moving from Tipton about ten years ago.

The survivors are his wife Etha Gregg, one son, Dr. Weston R. Gregg of Burlington and two daughters, Miss Florence Gregg of Carthage, Ill., and Mrs. E. F. Jeffers of Tipton. Also two brothers, Will of Tacoma, Washington, and Paul of Huron, South Dakota; three sisters, Mrs. Lloyd Hannah of Dakota, Mrs. Walter Ball of Chicago, and Mrs. Ed. Willer of Tipton, Ia. Two brothers, Richie and Christie Gregg and one sister preceded him in death. There also survive three grandchildren, Patricia Joan Jeffers and John Robert Jeffers of Tipton, and Phyllis Gregg of Burlington.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Johnson at 10 A.M. at the Elma funeral home, Carthage, Ill., Sunday. The body was brought to Tipton where Masonic burial service was conducted by A. M. McCormick at the Masonic cemetery near Tipton, at 3:00 P.M.