Kessler, Charles W., 1885-1925

KESSLER

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:34

From the Rock Valley Bee, February 6, 1925:

BROTHER OF MRS. PFEFFERLE MEETS WITH FATAL ACCIDENT

C. W. Kessler, a former Iowa boy who worked around here for several years and will be remembered by many residents of this vicinity, met with a fatal accident a few days ago at Corpus Christi, Texas. While doing post work, the side supports of a railway gave way, causing thirty tons of piling to roll down the embankment, burying six of the working men underneath.

Two of the men were killed instantly, C. W. Kessler and J. W. Hill. They were so badly crushed that they were beyond recognition. The other four men were rescued alive, but they are not expected to live.

Mr. Kessler is a brother of Mrs. W. D. Pfefferle, residing northeast of Rock Valley. He leaves a wife and three small children besides other relatives to mourn his untimely death.

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The Texas Death Index on Ancestry.com has Charles W. Kessler, died 21 Jan. 1925 in Nueces County, Texas.

The 1920 U.S. census shows Charles W. Kessler, age 35, born in New York of German parents, a farmer, living in Victoria County, Texas; wife Olga (23), born Texas; son Charles (1-1/2).

FindaGrave.com has Charles Wayne Kessler, born 14 May 1885 in New York; died 21 January 1925 in Corpus Christi, Nueces County; father William Kessler (1835-1902); children Charles Wayne Kessler (1918-1997) and Charlotte Elizabeth Kessler Scott (1922-2013); buried in Robstown Cemetery, Robstown, Nueces County, Texas.