Parker, Lewis J.

Lewis J. Parker, 48 years old, residing a quarter mile south of Oakland on the range line road, was instantly killed at 10 am this morning when he was pinned beneath falling boulders at the old Black Cat Mine, north of Smithfield. Parker had descended into the diggings, which he and some associates had leased, to prospect when slabs of rock fell out of the roof, crushing him. The body was brought to the Hurbut undertaking company. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Edna Parker; five sons, Edgar Parker, Leonard Parker, Harold Parker, Carl Parker, and Claude Parker; three brothers; Robert Parker of Kaw Oklahoma, Osa Parker and Raymond Parker, both of Joplin Missouri, and three sisters; Mrs. Charles Parker, Mrs. Pearl Doerge and Mrs. George Lang, all of Joplin. He was a member of East Joplin lodge No. 594, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.