LARSON, Christian George 1874-1946

LARSON, KILGORE, JACOBSEN, NASH, COOPER

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 8/18/2011 at 13:46:33

Christian George Larson 1874-1946

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RITES SET WEDNESDAY FOR ACCIDENT VICTIM

Carpenter, Iowa – Funeral services for Christian Larson, 71, who died Sunday morning at a hospital in Mason City from injuries suffered in an accident at the Milwaukee station, will be held Wednesday afternoon at the Deer Creek Lutheran church. The Rev. O. A. Langehough will officiate.

Mr. Larson was watching a crew unloading oil barrels when a rope broke and a barrel fell on him breaking a hip and causing other injuries.

Surviving are his invalid wife, two sons, Irving and Lenard, and a daughter, Mrs. Earl (Gladys) Cooper.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Tuesday, May 28, 1946]
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Deer Creek Cemetery, Mitchell Co., Iowa

Tombstone: Christian G. Larson -- October 22, 1874 – May 26, 1946

Tombstone: (his wife) Kate J. Larson -- November 11, 1880 – July 3, 1951
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Christian George Larson was born October 22, 1874 in Brown County, Wisconsin, the son of Peter and Dorothea (Jacobsen) Larson. (his middle name from WWI Draft Registration). He married Kate Jennie Kilgore, the daughter of William and Ruth (Nash) Kilgore.

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WWI Draft Registration -- September 12, 1918:
Christian George Larson age 43, living at Miltonville, Worth, Iowa; born October 22, 1874 in Wisconsin; Farmer, married, nearest relative: wife, Mrs. G. W. Larson.
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According to the 1925 Iowa Census; Christian Larson was the son of P. A. Larson and Dorothea Johannson. He married Kate Kilgore, the daughter of Edwin Kilgore and Ruth Nesh.