Griffith, D. B. (died 1911)

GRIFFITH

Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 5/13/2017 at 13:42:20

Algona Upper Des Moines – Republican
Algona, Iowa, Wednesday, February 22, 1911

MAN FALLS DEAD
D. B. Griffith, of Eagle Grove, Drops Dead At the Northwestern Depot This Morning.

D. B. Griffith, a retired farmer of Eagle Grove, succumbed to heart failure this morning at 9 o’clock, falling dead on the platform of the Northwestern depot while engaged in conversation with his traveling companion, C. E. Middleton, also of Eagle Grove. The two men had been at Britt on a land deal and came in on the Milwaukee and transferred to the Northwestern on their way home. The dead man was about 50 years of age and in apparent good health. The Odd Fellows Lodge at Eagle Grove was notified and the remains will be turned over to them by Coroner Reaser.