Evor T. Round (1872-1935)

ROUND, ILLINGWORTH, GILREATH, GETCHELL, GITCHELL, KEPKE, TRUSSEL, GODFREY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/9/2021 at 21:54:08

From Nevada Evening Journal March 23, 1935 (page 1)

E. T. ROUND DEAD; INQUEST MONDAY

CAMBRIDGE MAN PASSED AWAY AS RESULT OF INJURIES SUSTAINED

A coroner's inquest will be held Monday morning Evor T. Round, Cambridge man who died at Iowa sanitarium Friday night about 9:30, probably due to the effects of injuries sustained in an altercation at a pool hall in Cambridge on the night of Friday, March 15.

According to the story told officers by a number of witnesses the blow was not unprovoked. In the altercation Round was struck by a young man named Truman Johnson and as he went down under blow his head struck the corner of a pool table, inflicting an injury which proved serious and eventually fatal.

He was brought to Iowa sanitarium for treatment but passed away last evening.

The body is now at the Bishop Funeral home, where it will be held pending the inquest and subsequent funeral services and burial.

Rounds who has lived in Story county for many years had always been engaged in farming, having lived in various parts of the county. Of later years he has been located at or near Cambridge.

Evor T. Round was born in Denmark, 62 years ago, the eldest of the eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Round. He was 9 months of age when the parents came to America settling first in Illinois. There he grew to young manhood and came with his parent to Story county, settling first on a farm near McCallsburg.

He was united in marriage to Minnie Illingsworth, November 17, 1894. They lived first on a farm north of Nevada and afterwards near Ames and then to Cambridge.

He leaves his wife, Minnie Round, his daughters, Mrs. Florence Gilreath of near Ames and Mrs. Lola Getchell of Des Moines; his sisters Mrs. Lena Kepke, Mrs. Mary Trussel and Mrs. Myron Illingsworth of Des Moines and Mrs. Anna Godfrey of near Nevada; and brothers Peter and Thomas Round of Des Moines and Mates Round of Mankato, Minn. He also leaves one grandchild, Willard Gilreath of near Ames.

Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2:00 at the Lutheran church in Cambridge, with Dr. Simon in charge. Interment will be at Cambridge.

From Nevada Evening Journal March 25, 1935 (page 1)

CORONER'S JURY VERDICT

An inquisition holden at Nevada in Story county, Iowa, on the 25th day of March, A. D. 1935, before Dr. D. G. Mills, Coroner of the said county, as to the cause of the death of Evor Round, therelying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto attached.

The said jurors upon their oaths do say the Evor Round came to his death by means of a blow on his head. That his jury is not able to ascertain when said blow on his head. That this jury is not able to ascertain when said blow was received or how but that it occurred at time either prior or subsequent to his altercation with Truman Johnson in the Mike Berhow pool hall at Cambridge, Iowa. That there is no evidence that a crime has been committed on the deceased or that his death was the result of any malicious acts of any person, and that no person shall be accused of such in this case.

That it is therefore the verdict of this jury that a fracture of the skull resulted in the death of the deceased, Evor Round, and that said fracture was sustained by some accidental means.