Benjamin H. Berry (1886)

BERRY, HARRIS, RUNKLE

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 10/25/2007 at 15:35:24

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 19, 1886
Page 4

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A very sad death occurred in the Guye neighborhood last Friday afternoon. We refer to the accidental death of Mr. Benj. H. Berry. For some time he had been engaged in hauling cordwood. Friday afternoon he took his team and went as usual to the timber for a load. Shortly after two o'clock the horses came home hauling the fore running gears of the wagon. Neighbors went in search of him and found along the road the lifeless body of Mr. Berry. It was evident that the fore wheels of the wagon had passed over his body, but just how the wagon became uncoupled, or how he was thrown under the wheels, can not be known except from conjecture, as no one was with him at the time.

Deceased was a brother of Mr. W. M. Berry and Mrs. Harris, of Monroe township, and of Mrs. Thos. Runkle, of South township. We understand that he also had cousins living in the county.

He was a soldier in Co. H, 23d Iowa Infantry. The funeral occurred Saturday afternoon, the old soldiers turning out to escort the procession of friends and relatives of the deceased, to the Winterset cemetery, where interment took place with military honors.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 18, 1886
Page 4, Column 2

MAN KILLED—Benjamin Berry, a man 47 years of age, and father of a family, living a few miles northeast of Winterset went last Friday to the timber for a load of wood, and when search was made towards night he was found dead. From appearances it is supposed that his team ran away, in consequence of a broken breast-strap, while coming down hill, he being thrown off against a stump, and the wagon crushing his chest against it.

He was a soldier, and quite a long line of his comrades in arms preceded his remains to the cemetery on Saturday afternoon.

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