DINGUS McCONNELL CONNECTION: s/o William and Flora May Reynolds Dingus, William s/o Charles Wesley and Nancy Jane Flannery Dingus, Charles s/o William and Mary Ann (Polly) Green Dingus, William s/o Philip and Nancy McConnell Dinges/us.
C.A. DINGUS IS VICTIM of Motor Wreck on Left Beaver; Motor man hurt
Chester Arthur Dingus, 34 years old, son of Mr and Mrs W. M. Dingus of Hite was instantly killed Saturday morning when the mine motor on which he was brakeman was derailed and plunged from a tipple onto him as he sought to leap to safety. Warren Sammons motorman, escaped with injuries and is recovering at the Martin General hospital. The motor, operated in the Kathryn Elkhorn Coal Company at Jump, was approaching the tipple at the head of Hunter Branch, Left Beaver, when it derailed. The machine weighing several tons dropped a distance of approximately 20 feet, squarely onto Dingus.
Surviving are his parents, his widow, Mrs Hazel Taylor Dingus, two children, and the following brothers and sisters, all of Martin; Phillip Dingus of the armed forces; Mrs Girdell Salyers, Hite; Mrs Rhoda Crawford, Springdale, Utah; Blanch Dingus, of the Women Army Corps, Newport News, VA.
Funeral rites were conducted Tuesday afternoon from the home of his parents, elders of the Mormon Church officiating and burial was made in the family cemetery under the direction of Ryan Funeral Home.
Father: William Dingus b: 16 DEC 1879
Mother: Flora May Reynolds b: 8 OCT 1882
married HAZEL TAYLOR.
C.A. DINGUS IS VICTIM of Motor Wreck on Left Beaver; Motor man hurt
Chester Arthur Dingus, 34 years old, son of Mr and Mrs W. M. Dingus of Hite was instantly killed Saturday morning when the mine motor on which he was brakeman was derailed and plunged from a tipple onto him as he sought to leap to safety. Warren Sammons motorman, escaped with injuries and is recovering at the Martin General hospital. The motor, operated in the Kathryn Elkhorn Coal Company at Jump, was approaching the tipple at the head of Hunter Branch, Left Beaver, when it derailed. The machine weighing several tons dropped a distance of approximately 20 feet, squarely onto Dingus.
Surviving are his parents, his widow, Mrs Hazel Taylor Dingus, two children, and the following brothers and sisters, all of Martin; Phillip Dingus of the armed forces; Mrs Girdell Salyers, Hite; Mrs Rhoda Crawford, Springdale, Utah; Blanch Dingus, of the Women Army Corps, Newport News, VA.
Funeral rites were conducted Tuesday afternoon from the home of his parents, elders of the Mormon Church officiating and burial was made in the family cemetery under the direction of Ryan Funeral Home.
Father: William Dingus b: 16 DEC 1879
Mother: Flora May Reynolds b: 8 OCT 1882
married HAZEL TAYLOR.
DINGUS McCONNELL CONNECTION: s/o William and Flora May Reynolds Dingus, William s/o Charles Wesley and Nancy Jane Flannery Dingus, Charles s/o William and Mary Ann (Polly) Green Dingus, William s/o Philip and Nancy McConnell Dinges/us.
C.A. DINGUS IS VICTIM of Motor Wreck on Left Beaver; Motor man hurt
Chester Arthur Dingus, 34 years old, son of Mr and Mrs W. M. Dingus of Hite was instantly killed Saturday morning when the mine motor on which he was brakeman was derailed and plunged from a tipple onto him as he sought to leap to safety. Warren Sammons motorman, escaped with injuries and is recovering at the Martin General hospital. The motor, operated in the Kathryn Elkhorn Coal Company at Jump, was approaching the tipple at the head of Hunter Branch, Left Beaver, when it derailed. The machine weighing several tons dropped a distance of approximately 20 feet, squarely onto Dingus.
Surviving are his parents, his widow, Mrs Hazel Taylor Dingus, two children, and the following brothers and sisters, all of Martin; Phillip Dingus of the armed forces; Mrs Girdell Salyers, Hite; Mrs Rhoda Crawford, Springdale, Utah; Blanch Dingus, of the Women Army Corps, Newport News, VA.
Funeral rites were conducted Tuesday afternoon from the home of his parents, elders of the Mormon Church officiating and burial was made in the family cemetery under the direction of Ryan Funeral Home.
Father: William Dingus b: 16 DEC 1879
Mother: Flora May Reynolds b: 8 OCT 1882
married HAZEL TAYLOR.
C.A. DINGUS IS VICTIM of Motor Wreck on Left Beaver; Motor man hurt
Chester Arthur Dingus, 34 years old, son of Mr and Mrs W. M. Dingus of Hite was instantly killed Saturday morning when the mine motor on which he was brakeman was derailed and plunged from a tipple onto him as he sought to leap to safety. Warren Sammons motorman, escaped with injuries and is recovering at the Martin General hospital. The motor, operated in the Kathryn Elkhorn Coal Company at Jump, was approaching the tipple at the head of Hunter Branch, Left Beaver, when it derailed. The machine weighing several tons dropped a distance of approximately 20 feet, squarely onto Dingus.
Surviving are his parents, his widow, Mrs Hazel Taylor Dingus, two children, and the following brothers and sisters, all of Martin; Phillip Dingus of the armed forces; Mrs Girdell Salyers, Hite; Mrs Rhoda Crawford, Springdale, Utah; Blanch Dingus, of the Women Army Corps, Newport News, VA.
Funeral rites were conducted Tuesday afternoon from the home of his parents, elders of the Mormon Church officiating and burial was made in the family cemetery under the direction of Ryan Funeral Home.
Father: William Dingus b: 16 DEC 1879
Mother: Flora May Reynolds b: 8 OCT 1882
married HAZEL TAYLOR.
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