Harry F. Lile (1932)

CLARK, LILE

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:02

The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, May 12, 1932
Page 1, Column 3

HARRY LILE KILLED – FALLS FROM HORSE

Found Unconscious At Pasture Gate. Skull Fractured Lives 12 Hours

Harry Lile, 19-year-old boy, working for Howard Hammans on the Eli Greenwood farm in Union township, was found unconscious Monday evening, May 2 about six o’clock by a pasture gate. His skull was fractured and he did not regain consciousness, dying at six o’clock the next morning.

The boy had come in from the field and, taking a horse, had gone after the cows. Hammans had found the horse at the barn and not finding the boy went to the pasture where he discovered him not far from the gate.

There was nothing to show what happened. The horse had a skinned place on the top of his head which led the men to believe that possibly he had stumbled and struck Lile with his feet as he got up.

Efforts to find the boy’s mother resulted in a locating her in an adjoining state, but she said that she did not have enough money to come to Winterset. Neal Anderson proposed to Dr. L. L. Wade that they go after her. The two men drove all night, bringing her here the next morning, a drive of 375 miles.

While she was here she was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Wade who took her back to her present home after the funeral which was held Thursday morning at the Tidrick funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Paul Williams of Lorimor. Burial was in the Winterset cemetery.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, May 12, 1932
Page 2, Column 3

HERE AND THERE

Harry Lile, 19, a farm hand on the Howard Hamond place in Union township, known as the Greenwood farm, met with a fatal accident Monday evening while driving up the cows. He was thrown from a pony fracturing his skull. he never regained conscious and died Tuesday morning at eight o'clock.

Neal Anderson drove down Thursday night to Plattsburg, Missouri, to meet Mr. Lile's mother. Mrs. Mildred Clark.

Burial was in the Winterset cemetery Friday morning.
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Transcriber's note: Middle initial taken from Iowa Death Certificate.