Frank Albert WALLIN

WALLIN, WALLEN, WOODS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/3/2010 at 13:01:31

18 May 1869 -- 11 February 1918

Frank Albert Wallin was the second child and moved with his parents to Wright County, Iowa when but a small child. He grew to manhood near Woolstock and was united in marriage February 28, 1894 to Miss D. Ellen Woods at Chula, Livingston County, Mo. Ellen was born in Sherman, Sangamon County, Illinois on April 14, 1874. Mr. Wallin spent most of his life in Wright County until February 1918. He bought a farm near Glenville, Minn. He was engaged in moving to that place but while engaged in unloading some machinery his team became frightened at a train, ran away and Mr. Wallin was caught between the wagon and a coal shed that crushed his body severely. He was taken immediately to the Naebe Hospital in Albert Lea, Minn., but after two weeks of intense suffering passed away February 11, 1918. He was a member of the Methodist Church; was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Eagle Grove, Ia.