ALDO BOOTH was the son of Willis "W.E." Early Booth and Mrs. Woodie E. (Woods) Booth.
His known siblings were ---
Claudie Booth {half-brother}
Verina "Vera" Booth {half-sister}
Johnnie Woods Booth
James Willis Booth
Thomas Edwin Booth
Obituary
"Boy Killed By Elevator ---
Yesterday afternoon about 6 o'clock, little Aldo, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Booth, of this city, was crushed to death by the elevator weights in the new First National Bank building. The little fellow was looking down the shaft from the window on the third floor, watching the painters who were painting the walls of the shaft from the top of the elevator car, when the car moved upward, lowering the counter-balance weights, which caught his head against the window sill, crushing his skull instantly. The head was so tightly wedged between the weights and the wall that the elevator was stopped and the weights had to be pried up with the timbers in order to extricate the body, which took about half an hour. The remains were taken to the undertaking parlors of S.C. Forman and prepared for burial. The funeral services were conducted at the home by Elder C.N. Wooten at 2:30 this afternoon, and the remains were laid to rest at Greenwood Cemetery."
Sources
~ Obituary Published in the Wednesday, January 17, 1912 and Thursday, January 18, 1912 Editions of The Marshall News Messenger [the newspaper of Harrison County, Texas] and the Longview Times-Clarion [the newspaper of Gregg County, Texas]
~ 1900-1920 Census Records of Harrison County, Texas
His known siblings were ---
Claudie Booth {half-brother}
Verina "Vera" Booth {half-sister}
Johnnie Woods Booth
James Willis Booth
Thomas Edwin Booth
Obituary
"Boy Killed By Elevator ---
Yesterday afternoon about 6 o'clock, little Aldo, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Booth, of this city, was crushed to death by the elevator weights in the new First National Bank building. The little fellow was looking down the shaft from the window on the third floor, watching the painters who were painting the walls of the shaft from the top of the elevator car, when the car moved upward, lowering the counter-balance weights, which caught his head against the window sill, crushing his skull instantly. The head was so tightly wedged between the weights and the wall that the elevator was stopped and the weights had to be pried up with the timbers in order to extricate the body, which took about half an hour. The remains were taken to the undertaking parlors of S.C. Forman and prepared for burial. The funeral services were conducted at the home by Elder C.N. Wooten at 2:30 this afternoon, and the remains were laid to rest at Greenwood Cemetery."
Sources
~ Obituary Published in the Wednesday, January 17, 1912 and Thursday, January 18, 1912 Editions of The Marshall News Messenger [the newspaper of Harrison County, Texas] and the Longview Times-Clarion [the newspaper of Gregg County, Texas]
~ 1900-1920 Census Records of Harrison County, Texas
ALDO BOOTH was the son of Willis "W.E." Early Booth and Mrs. Woodie E. (Woods) Booth.
His known siblings were ---
Claudie Booth {half-brother}
Verina "Vera" Booth {half-sister}
Johnnie Woods Booth
James Willis Booth
Thomas Edwin Booth
Obituary
"Boy Killed By Elevator ---
Yesterday afternoon about 6 o'clock, little Aldo, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Booth, of this city, was crushed to death by the elevator weights in the new First National Bank building. The little fellow was looking down the shaft from the window on the third floor, watching the painters who were painting the walls of the shaft from the top of the elevator car, when the car moved upward, lowering the counter-balance weights, which caught his head against the window sill, crushing his skull instantly. The head was so tightly wedged between the weights and the wall that the elevator was stopped and the weights had to be pried up with the timbers in order to extricate the body, which took about half an hour. The remains were taken to the undertaking parlors of S.C. Forman and prepared for burial. The funeral services were conducted at the home by Elder C.N. Wooten at 2:30 this afternoon, and the remains were laid to rest at Greenwood Cemetery."
Sources
~ Obituary Published in the Wednesday, January 17, 1912 and Thursday, January 18, 1912 Editions of The Marshall News Messenger [the newspaper of Harrison County, Texas] and the Longview Times-Clarion [the newspaper of Gregg County, Texas]
~ 1900-1920 Census Records of Harrison County, Texas
His known siblings were ---
Claudie Booth {half-brother}
Verina "Vera" Booth {half-sister}
Johnnie Woods Booth
James Willis Booth
Thomas Edwin Booth
Obituary
"Boy Killed By Elevator ---
Yesterday afternoon about 6 o'clock, little Aldo, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Booth, of this city, was crushed to death by the elevator weights in the new First National Bank building. The little fellow was looking down the shaft from the window on the third floor, watching the painters who were painting the walls of the shaft from the top of the elevator car, when the car moved upward, lowering the counter-balance weights, which caught his head against the window sill, crushing his skull instantly. The head was so tightly wedged between the weights and the wall that the elevator was stopped and the weights had to be pried up with the timbers in order to extricate the body, which took about half an hour. The remains were taken to the undertaking parlors of S.C. Forman and prepared for burial. The funeral services were conducted at the home by Elder C.N. Wooten at 2:30 this afternoon, and the remains were laid to rest at Greenwood Cemetery."
Sources
~ Obituary Published in the Wednesday, January 17, 1912 and Thursday, January 18, 1912 Editions of The Marshall News Messenger [the newspaper of Harrison County, Texas] and the Longview Times-Clarion [the newspaper of Gregg County, Texas]
~ 1900-1920 Census Records of Harrison County, Texas
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