Fenton L. "Tim" DeLong (1892)

BECKETT, CLOSE, DELONG, PIKE

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:03

The Osceola Weekly Sentinel
Osceola, Iowa
Thursday, June 30, 1892
Page 6, Column 3

Last Tuesday, Mrs. Beckett received a telegram telling her her brother in Des Moines had been killed. The Register of that day said: “The Ft. Dodge passenger train on the C.R.I. & P. struck and killed Tim DeLong while he was walking on the track near Robinson’s brick yard, west of town, shortly before 7 o’clock last evening. The engine struck the man square in the breast and threw him twenty-five feet to the side of the track. Both arms and legs were broken and a deep gash was cut in his head. Death was instantaneous.

DeLong was fifty-four years of age and has lived in Des Moines thirteen years, having come here from Winterset. He has lived with his wife in their pretty little cottage just west of the brick yard for three years.

He was a member of the Fifteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the war and was a member of Crocker Post. He was a carpenter and was engaged in building a house near his home for Scott & Jakanary.

He leaves a wife, five sons and two daughters. Frank and Harry live at home, Fred and Lee work in Des Moines, and William lives in Chesterfield. His two daughters are Mrs. Albert L. Close and Mrs. C. Pike, the latter living in Chesterfield. He was buried at Truro in Madison county.
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Coordinator's note: First name taken from gravestone. In addition to the gravestone linked herein, he has a military gravestone in the same cemetery.

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