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Nephi Morgan Farnworth

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Nephi Morgan Farnworth Veteran

Birth
Death
9 Jul 1925 (aged 33)
Burial
Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.52281, Longitude: -112.2942533
Plot
6-73-1
Memorial ID
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Name is misspelled repeatedly throughout official documents: Farnworth (no s.)
No known wife or children.

Served in World War I. Trained with 145th Battalion 40th Division. Placed in European front lines in Battery B, 147th Field Artillery.

Salt lake Telegram, 11 July 1925, page 3
Tooele Worker Meets Death Under Oreslide
Tooele, July 11 — Nephi Morgan Farnsworth, 33, met accidental death Thursday at the International Smelting and Refining company smelter when he was buried under a cavein of ore and was suffocated. It took three hours work to uncover the body.
He was born in Mt. Pleasant, May 2, 1892, but had lived here for fifteen years. He is survived by a brother, Orange Farnsworth, of Tooele, and six sisters, Miss Lucile Farnsworth, Mrs. Hunnah Nelson and Mrs. Ethel Gunther of Tooele, Mrs. Pear Whitmer of Bingham and Mrs. Luella Miles and Mrs. Laura Kinder of Salt Lake City.
Funeral Services will be held in the South Ward church Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Name is misspelled repeatedly throughout official documents: Farnworth (no s.)
No known wife or children.

Served in World War I. Trained with 145th Battalion 40th Division. Placed in European front lines in Battery B, 147th Field Artillery.

Salt lake Telegram, 11 July 1925, page 3
Tooele Worker Meets Death Under Oreslide
Tooele, July 11 — Nephi Morgan Farnsworth, 33, met accidental death Thursday at the International Smelting and Refining company smelter when he was buried under a cavein of ore and was suffocated. It took three hours work to uncover the body.
He was born in Mt. Pleasant, May 2, 1892, but had lived here for fifteen years. He is survived by a brother, Orange Farnsworth, of Tooele, and six sisters, Miss Lucile Farnsworth, Mrs. Hunnah Nelson and Mrs. Ethel Gunther of Tooele, Mrs. Pear Whitmer of Bingham and Mrs. Luella Miles and Mrs. Laura Kinder of Salt Lake City.
Funeral Services will be held in the South Ward church Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.


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