Etc. -- John Russell Yeager's 1921 death
Introduction | Source Documents | Other Sources | Photocopies | Back 

A lightly edited transcription of a page 5 article in the 24 Nov 1921 issue of the Waterford Star.

Woodhouse Farmer Instantly Killed

Simcoe, 22 Nov 1921 -- John Russell Yeager, a prosperous Woodhouse township farmer, and a sons of the late Bramwell Yeager and of Mrs. Yeager, now resident on Colborne Street, Simcoe, was instantly killed in his barn yesterday afternoon.

With his helper, Sidney Benstead, he had been engaged during the afternoon cutting cornstalks, using a gasoline engine. The work completed, he threw the belt off the cutting box and noticing that the belt was beginning to tangle up on the shaft, he was in the adct of hurrying across to shut off the spark when his foot became caught in a loop of the belt. He was drawn to the shaft and instantly killed.

Deceased was 39 years of age and married. He leaves a widow and three small children, two girls and a boy. Mrs. Norman Forse of Simcoe is a sister; five other sisters live here with their mother.

The funeral will leave his late home at one o'clock on Thursday for interment at Oakwood Cemetery.

  
Copyright 2018 John Cardiff