Elmer Elsworth Sellers (1863-1895)

SELLERS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/7/2011 at 22:15:19

From Story County Watchman February 22, 1895

OBITUARY.--Elmer Elsworth Sellers was born near Colo, Story county, Iowa, August 7, 1863, and was killed by a train in Dayton, Webster county, Iowa, Feb. 15, 1895. His age was 31 years, 6 months, 8 days. He was a good, moral young man, respected by all that were acquainted with him. He leaves a step-father, a mother and sister with a number of relatives and friends to mourn the loss of a son and brother. The funeral was conducted by Rev. John Elliott, pastor of the Colo M. E. church.

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Last Friday afternoon while Elmer Sellers was working on the railroad near Dayton, Iowa he was truck by a passing train and hurled 40 feet killing him instantly. It seems that his fellow workmen across the track had dropped a timber on the rail and Elmer, not thinking of the swift running train, started to go and help move the timber, but before he reached the other side the train struck him with the above result. The Coroner's jury at the inquest held at Dayton, returned a verdict of accidental death. The funeral was held here Sunday, Rev. John Elliott preaching the sermon in the M. E. church, after which the remains were laid to rest in the Colo cemetery. The foreman, Mr. J. J. Coady, for whom Elmer was working at the time of the accident has this to say: "Elmer was a first class workman, always forward, taking the lead with the work, was strictly honest in all his dealings made every one his friend and had no enemies. I never knew of him doing a dishonest act and so we find that all through life he was a good, kind hearted, honest, industrious boy."