Eugene Leonard STUELAND

STUELAND

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/4/2014 at 14:03:31

November 9, 1948 --- February 16, 1963

EAGLE GROVE — Eugene Stueland, 14, the oldest of eight children of the Leonard Stuelands who live on a farm near here, was found by his father hanging in a bin which is used to store shelled corn. Humboldt County Sheriff E. H. Bradley and county medical examiner Dr. James Coddington said there was no evidence of foul play and that the boy's death could have been accidental. No inquest was planned.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
February 18, 1963

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Boy, 14, is Hanged Accidentally in Bin
THOR, IA — Funeral arrangements were pending Sunday for Eugene Stueland, 14, who was found hanged to death in a bin used to store shelled corn on his father's farm three miles south of this Humboldt County town. Leonard Stueland, the boy's father, found the body shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday. Humboldt County Medical Examiner Dr. James Coddington said Eugene died of strangulation and placed the time of death at about 5 p.m. Sheriff E. H. Bradley said he found no evidence to indicate that the death was anything other than accidental. He said the rope had been hanging from rafters in the bin where it had been used in storing corn since last fall. Eugene was the oldest of eight Stueland children and an eighth grade student at Eagle Grove Junior High School.

Carroll Daily Times Herald - Carroll, Iowa
February 18, 1963

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[Burial in Rose Hill Cemetery in Eagle Grove]