Twogood, Roy (Died 1911)

TWOGOOD

Posted By: Doris Hoffman (email)
Date: 7/19/2010 at 10:45:09

INFECTION WAS FATAL
KINGSLEY YOUNG MAN DIES OF
BLOOD POISONING

ASSISTED IN CARING FOR CORPSE

Roy Twogood, a Liveryman, Succumbs
After a Brief Illness to Effects of
Inhalations While Assisting an
Undertaker near Marcus

Sioux City Journal: Roy Twogood,
aged 31 years, died at the Samaritan
hospital Friday from an infection of
the blood caused by shaving a corpse.

The body was removed to the Kidd
undertaking parlors and was taken
to Kingsley in the evening for burial.

Twogood, with a younger brother,
was at one time in the livery business
at Kingsley, where his parents reside,
and recently sold out, opening a barn
at Marcus, Iowa. Twogood some time
ago went to a farmer's home near
Marcus to aid in shaving the corpse
of a man who had died of old age. He
had for some time been afflicted with
weak tonsils, and it is thought that
the blood was poisoned by inhaling
germs which the weakened organs
were unable to withstand.

Twogood first went to Correctionville
and later was attended by Sioux
City physicians before being removed
to the hospital. His mother and father
live at Kingsley. In addition to his
wife and son, Twogood is survived by
two brothers and seven sisters.

The Marcus News has the following
in regard to his death: It will be remem-
bered by readers of the News that two
weeks ago Frank Peters traded
his livery barn and livery business
to Roy and David Twogood, of Clark,
South Dakota, for land near that place
and that the Twogood Bros, had
moved to Marcus and taken charge of
their property. It seems that in moving
here Roy took a severe cold which
settled in his teeth and throat. No
house could be secured for the occu-
pancy of himself and family before
March 1st, and as his parents reside
at Kingsley and his wife's parents at
Correctionville. It was decided that
they store their household goods here
in Marcus and visit at their parental
homes until they could get a house
in Marcus to live in. The cold with
which he was afflicted developed into
tonsillitis. A surgeon was called from
Sioux, City who lanced the affected
parts. Blood poisoning set
in and he was removed from
his parental home in Kingsley to the
Samaritan hospital in Sioux City,
where he died this morning at six
o'clock. His remains will be interred
in the family lot at Kingsley. Deceased
was about thirty years of age
and leaves a wife and little son to
mourn his untimely death.

Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
Tuesday, January 31, 1911
Le Mars, Iowa