Evans, Robert Guy

Funeral Home Data

Deceased:Evans, Robert Guy

Born:Feb 25 1885

Died:Mar 22 1919

Age:34

Remarks:married, a miner, died Mar 22, 1919, at the Vinegar Hill Mine, of falling machinery, age 34 years and 27 days. Charge to Vinegar Hill Mining Company. Born Feb 25, 1885. Father S. H. Evans and mother Ada Kirkpatrick both were born in Iowa. Burial at Greenlawn cemetery, in Kansas, northwest of Picher Oklahoma.

Record Source:Mitchelson Funeral Home

(Funeral Record)Commerce, Ottawa County, OK

Abstract Data

George Evans, of Commerce, in charge of the sludge room of the Vinegar Hill Mill on the state line north of Picher, was found dead in the mill Saturday morning by the man who was to have relieved him. The cause of Mr. Evans' death was unknown but it was thought that he had climbed to the screen in the sludge room and in some way got tangled in the line shaft and was thrown to the floor. His neck was broken and he was bruised about the body. Mr. Evans leaves a wife and two children, a father and brother, all of whom reside in Commerce.

Miami Record Herald — Miami, OK

Mar 22 1919 · p.4 · col.1

Bob Evans was killed in the machinery at the Vinegar Mill Company Friday night and the body was taken to the Mitchelson undertaking parlor. Note: See George Bob' Evans. This has to be the same person.

Miami Record Herald — Miami, OK

Mar 23 1919 · p.2 · col.6

Book: Mitchelson Funeral Home, Commerce, Oklahoma July 1916 - August 1957 — S J Mahurin

ISBN: 1-892744-93-7