Maloy Books

Williams, Simon P. "Jack"


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38 years old, a Picher Oklahoma miner who was killed Wednesday near Willow Springs Missouri, when struck by a Frisco Train, was buried at Willow Springs Thursday instead of being returned to Picher for burial as previously announced. N. W. Green, proprietor of the Green undertaking company, Picher, and an assistant left Thursday afternoon for Willow Springs to return the body to Picher, but upon arriving there were advised by the undertaker in charge of the body that it had been buried in a cemetery there. R. Williams at the time of accident, was hitch-hiking to southeast Missouri, where he had been promised work shucking corn. He was partly deaf.

Miami News Record — Miami, OK

Nov 15 1931 · p.3 · col.5

Book: Hard Rock Lead and Zinc Mining Men — S J Mahurin

ISBN: 1-892744-95-3