Emma Zoeller (1845-1935)

ZOELLER

Posted By: Debra Scott Hierlmeier (email)
Date: 11/9/2008 at 13:43:00

Emma Zoeller
(November 25, 1845 - September 9, 1935)
burial in Oaklawn Cemetery, Oakland, Pottawattamie County, Iowa

Train Kills Woman, 91, Near Bluffs
Aged Avocan Wanders to Her Death Along Rock Island Tracks
3 miles from Home

Miss Emma Zoeller, 91, Avoca, Ia., was killed by a westbound passenger train three miles west of Avoca at about 98 am today.

The aged woman was walking westward along the Rock Island track. Her presence that distance from home so early in the day was not explained.

The engineer, Henry Brandt of Valley Junction, told County Coroner Tom Belford that he noticed the woman some time before the train reached her. He blew the whistle loudly, and applied the brakes. She stepped off of the track and apparently was far enough to one side that the train would clear her, he said, but just before the engine caught up with her, she ‘wandered” back on the track again.

The body was taken to Shelby, Ia., by the train, and from there to the Blust Bros. mortuary at Avoca.
A brother, Fred Zoeller, survives.

From the Scrapbooks of Bessie Gross Gustafsen
Source: Avoca Journal Herald