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Everitt, Lloyd

Age 26

Consolidated Mine No. 14

Miami News Record · May 29 1929 · Pg 10 · Col 5

Picher Oklahoma, May 29 Lloyd Everitt, 26 years old, a machine man at a field shaft of the Consolidated Mine No. 14, a mile north of Treece Kansas, met almost instant death shortly before 4 yesterday afternoon when struck by a falling slab. Death resulted while Everitt was being taken to a local hospital.

Mr. Everitt is survived by his wife, Mrs. Icle Everitt; two sons, James B. Everitt and Ralph Irvan Everitt, and one daughter, Earline Emmat Everitt, all at home; his mother, Mrs. Jessie Harp, of Wichita Kansas, and three brothers, Louis Everitt, Ray Everitt and Walter Everitt, all of Picher, and two sisters, Flossie Everitt and Mrs. May Griffin, also of Picher.

Everitt and his family resided in Blue Mound, a short distance across the state line in Kansas. Funeral services will be conducted at the family home at 1 tomorrow afternoon with the Rev. Robert Nichols officiating. Burial will be in the Carterville Missouri, cemetery under direction of the Green undertaking company of Picher Oklahoma.

Miami News Record · May 30 1929 · Pg 2 · Col 2

Funeral services for Lloyd Everitt, 26 years old, who met death Tuesday at Consolidated Mine No. 14, when struck by a falling slab, were conducted at the family home in Blue Mound Kansas at 1 this afternoon. The Rev. Robert Nichols of Galena Kansas officiated. Pallbearers were employees at the No. 50 shaft of Consolidated Mine No.14, where Everitt was working as a machine man at the time of the accident. Burial was in the Carterville Missouri cemetery. The funeral was under direction of the Green undertaking company of Picher Oklahoma.

Disclaimer: If you search for these articles somewhere else, searches should be done by date in the city of Miami Oklahoma. The clippings have "Miami Newspapers, Miami Oklahoma." The paper changed names several times making it difficult to search by title. Most of the Hard Rock Lead and Zinc Fatalities newspaper clippings are from the personal files of I. D. Hulvey, former powderman in the Picher mine and then owner of the Hulvey Insurance Agency.