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George Benton Springer

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George Benton Springer

Birth
Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri, USA
Death
3 Oct 1949 (aged 61)
Marysville, Yuba County, California, USA
Burial
Oroville, Butte County, California, USA Add to Map
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George Benton Springer was the son of the Rev. James Dobbins Springer and his third wife, Hulda Elvira (White) Springer. He was named for two of his mother's brothers, George and Benton White. He was born in Aurora, Missouri, where his father was serving as the founding pastor of the Aurora Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In his early life he lived in Lawrence and Stone counties in Missouri, where his father served as pastor of local Cumberland Presbyterian congregations. When George registered for the World War I draft, he lived in Imperial County, California. While serving in WWI he suffered gas injuries to the lungs. After the war he did general farm work in Kansas and Missouri. Later he moved to California where other members of his family lived, and at the time of his death his occupation was recorded as truck garden farmer. He died from traumatic shock after suffering multiple fractures, lacerations and internal injuries due to being struck by a freight train on the Western Pacific Railrod tracks in Marysville, California. He was never married.
Jim L. Wilson
George Benton Springer was the son of the Rev. James Dobbins Springer and his third wife, Hulda Elvira (White) Springer. He was named for two of his mother's brothers, George and Benton White. He was born in Aurora, Missouri, where his father was serving as the founding pastor of the Aurora Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In his early life he lived in Lawrence and Stone counties in Missouri, where his father served as pastor of local Cumberland Presbyterian congregations. When George registered for the World War I draft, he lived in Imperial County, California. While serving in WWI he suffered gas injuries to the lungs. After the war he did general farm work in Kansas and Missouri. Later he moved to California where other members of his family lived, and at the time of his death his occupation was recorded as truck garden farmer. He died from traumatic shock after suffering multiple fractures, lacerations and internal injuries due to being struck by a freight train on the Western Pacific Railrod tracks in Marysville, California. He was never married.
Jim L. Wilson

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