Lawson, William M.

William McKinley Dawson, known better to his intimate friends as "Mug" Dawson was instantly killed Friday morning by the falling of a slab while working in No. 4, hard rock lead and zinc field shaft of the Skelton Mine, near Douthat Oklahoma. Dawson lived at Quapaw Oklahoma and was a young man about 25 years of age. He leaves a wife and one child about one year of age. He had been working in the mine for about one month and full particulars of the accident could not be secured except the usual "falling of a slab" which is one of the sources of serious accidents in any mine. Note: Newspaper had name as Lawson and Dawson

Picher Oklahoma, June 11.--Funeral services for William McKinley Lawson, 25 years old, who was instantly killed by a falling slab at the Skelton Mine No. 4, at Douthat Oklahoma at 9 Friday morning, will be held at 1:30 Sunday afternoon from the residence of his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Cole, at Quapaw Oklahoma. The Rev. Roney, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery at Galena Kansas. Lawson was working on a machine underground when the slab fell. It was large enough to require four men in lifting it from his body. The body was taken to the morgue of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher. Lawson is survived by his wife, Mrs. Laura Lawson and small child, who reside at Quapaw, his father, Joseph Lawson, Quapaw, and a brother at Broken Arrow Oklahoma.

Due to the negligence and carelessness of the Skelton Lead and Zinc Company, an accident occurred in a mine of the Company which caused the death of William M. Lawson, Mrs. Laura Lawson filed suit in district court here Tuesday asking $20,000 damages. Lawson was killed in a mine on June 10, 1921; when a piece of slab fell on him. The petition states that the suit is filed in behalf of the 9 month old daughter and Mrs. Lawson.