E.L., Daisey Bell & Virginia J. Shreve & Janet W. Fellows

SHREVE, FELLOWS

Posted By: Karen DaPra (email)
Date: 2/15/2002 at 21:36:55

VICTIMS WERE MR. AND MRS. SHREVE, THEIR DAUGHTER, AND JANET FELLOWS
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Farmington people were almost rendered speechless with horror when they learned early Monday morning that four residents of the town had been killed in an automobile accident about 8:40 Sunday evening near Montrose, on a Burlington grade crossing, when their car was struck by a train.

The dead are:
E. L. Shreve 52, rural mail carrier
Daisy Bell Shreve, his wife, 50.
Virginia Jane Shreve, daughter, 12.
Janet Winifred Fellows, 13.

The tragic accident, which wiped out all of the Shreve family save one, and the little Fellows girl, was with one exception, the most horrible automobile accident that has happened to Van Buren county people, and in loss of life equals the accident at Niles crossing near Cantril, a few years ago when four young men lost their lives when the car in which they were riding collided with a Burlington route train.
HAD BEEN TO FT. MADISON
Just what caused the car to be on the tracks when the train came hurtling along will probably never be known, as onlookers differ in their versions of the affair.

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 172 of Obit Book A found in the Van Buren County, IA Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in July 1999. Name of newspaper and date of obit not given, however one obit on this page is dated October 1930.)

I would be interested in knowing who Janet Winifred Fellows' parents were.

(originally posted 20 Aug 1999)