James D. McDonald (1923)
BURTON, GOOD, MCDONALD
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:26
The Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri
Wednesday, September 19, 1923
Page 4, Column 1Webb City, Mo., Sept. 18—James D. McDonald, 69 years old, farmer, died from loss of blood within thirty minutes after having a leg partially severed by a sharp blade of a mower at his farm, seven miles north of Neck City.
McDonald, with two helpers, Walter Edwards and Clarence Swanson, were cutting fodder in a field when in some manner he became entangled with the blade of the mower.
According to Edwards, a bandage was tied above the wound in an effort to prevent the flow of blood. The man died 30 minutes after the accident and had been dead for some time before a physician arrived.
An inquest will be conducted at Neck City at 7 o’clock Wednesday night by Coroner Perry K. Hurlbut. McDonald formerly lived in Joplin. He was born in Illinois and had been living north of Neck City for the last seven years.
The surviving relatives are his wife, Mrs. Minnie McDonald, and three children, Mrs. Pauline Burton, Mrs. Grace Good and Thomas McDonald.
________________________Transcriber's note: The deceased was married in Madison County, Iowa in 1904 and resided in East Peru in the 1905 Iowa State Census.
Madison Obituaries maintained by Linda Griffith Smith.
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