Edgar D. Weeks (1939)
HYLTON, PINCKNEY, POWERS, TILTON, WEEKS
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 3/1/2007 at 14:04:33
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday,l November 29, 1939MISSING NINE DAYS HUNTER FOUND DEAD
Ed Weeks Found Hanging in Fence, Victim of Gun Accident
Missing for nine days, Edgar D. Weeks of Monroe township, a World war veteran, was found dead Tuesday of accidental gunshot wounds.
Weeks had gone hunting on Nov. 19, and in climbing through a fence the .410 caliber sawed-off pistol he carried had discharged, killing him instantly. The fence was located on the farm of a neighbor, Dan Silverthorn. The body was found by the victim's brother and brother-in-law, Clyde Weeks and Lawrence Pinckney.
Weeks was 68 years of age, and was a World war veteran, having served as a first sergeant in a remount detachment. He was a bachelor, and ordinarily lived alone on his farm. However, Clyde Weeks, a brother, had been living with him recently.
Clyde Weeks said that it had been the custom of his brother to go for extended visits with his relatives without saying anything about it, so he thought little of it when Edgar left on Nov. 19. However, after he had been gone a week, Clyde began to inquire of relatives as to his brother's whereabouts, and unable to locate him, a search was started.
Sheriff A. E. Null and County Coroner J. F. Veltman were notified and made an investigation. Veltman termed the death undoubtedly accidental.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 30, 1939
Page 1, Column 4BACHELOR FOUND DEAD IN FENCE
Edgar D. Weeks, 68, Shot Himself Accidentally. Found 9 Days Later.
Edgar D. Weeks, about 68, Monroe township farmer, Tuesday morning was found dead in a fence on the Dan Silverthorn farm where it is believed he accidentally shot himself nine days previous, Nov. 19. The body was found by Clyde Weeks, a brother, and Lawrence Pinckney, brother-in-law.
Weeks, a bachelor World war veteran, left home the 19th and his relatives believed he had gone to visit neighbors as was a frequent custom of his.
They did not become alarmed until Tuesday and started the search. He had been shot in the neck with a .410 gauge shotgun pistol. Coroner John F. Veltman and Sheriff A. E. Null investigated the shooting but did not hold an inquest. The death was found to be accidental, Null said.
Weeks is survived by his brother Clyde, and three sisters, Mrs. Hylton Mrs. E. J. Tilton and Mrs. Lawrence Pinckney.
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