Lon SMITH

SMITH, FLYNN, BLACKABY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/6/2014 at 13:26:02

May 7, 1877 --- August 17, 1906

Lon Smith was ground to pieces this Friday afternoon at one o'clock by the south bound freight at Hospers. He attempted to jump a box car from the platform and was flung under the wheels. His head and legs and arms were cut off and his body mangled in terrible shape. Deceased was about thirty two years old. His folks live at Whiting. He has a wife somewhere and a child aged seven in Oklahoma with it's uncle. Smith was formerly a brakeman on the Northwestern through Alton and lived at Eagle Grove. He came to Hospers from Sheldon a few months ago and worked at blacksmithing.

Alton Democrat - Alton, Iowa
August 18, 1906

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[son of Edmund J. Smith and Elvira (Flynn) Smith; buried in Whiting Cemetery, Whiting, Monona County, Iowa; death record states divorced; marriage record in Woodbury County, Iowa on April 20, 1899 to Effie C. Blackaby]