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Subject: KILLED IN A SAW MILL - J.H. PENNISTEN.

Date: Saturday, October 13, 2001 10:17 PM

Decatur County Journal

January 23, l908

TOM PENNISTEN, of this city, received a message Monday of last week

stating that his brother, J.H. PENNISTEN, had been terribly injured

while at work in a saw mill at Shamrock, Montana. He started at once

for that place, but upon reaching Creston he learned that his mother,

MRS. MARGARET SPARGUR, had been notified of his brother's death, so he

returned to Leon.

A letter was received last Sunday in Leon from CHARLES PENNISTEN who

went from Bethany, Mo., recently to a ranch that he had purchased near

Shamrock, giving particulars of the sad accident. Saturday morning,

January llth, about 9:30 o'clock the unfortunate man saw that something

was wrong with one of the pulleys in the mill and he was arranging to

make repairs when a piece of lumber caught in the fly wheel near at hand

and in a second, the end of the timber had been whirled over with

lightning-like rapidity, the end striking MR. PENNISTEN upon the head

and fracturing his skull. Physicians were called in at once and

everything possible done for the injured man. His death resulted the

following afternoon at 2:30. The remains were taken to Thompson, twelve

miles from Shamrock, where the funeral services were held Tuesday,

January l4. MR. PENNISTEN was a married man and leaves a wife and five

children, four girls and one boy. He was forty-four years of age and

was the eldest son of MRS. MARGARET SPARGUR, a former resident of Davis

City. He was also a former resident of Decatur County. He left the

county about nineteen years ago, going first to Creston where he

remained for about six years. For some years he has been in the west.

He lived for a time at Rock Springs, Wyoming, but at the time of his

death, his home was in Eddy, Montana, four miles from the mill where he

was killed.

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