FALL RESULTS IN DEATH
Not for a long time has this community been shocked and saddened as by the tragic death of I.E. Spears, a well-known carpenter and citizen of this city as the result of an accident which befell him at the plant of the Akron Flour and Feed Mill shortly after four o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
W.J. Davidson, proprietor of the mill, has had a force of men at work the past few weeks dismantling the flouring machinery and getting it ready to ship to parties in Wisconsin, who bought it for use in a mill there. All of the heavy equipment had been removed from the second and third floors of the mill and lowered through trap-doors in the floors, provided for that particular purpose.
When the fatal accident happened, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Spears and Henry Rossbach were starting to lower a long section of wooden spouting through the opening in the third floor. A block and tackle had been rigged above and the rope was attached to the spouting. As the end of the wooden section was being lowered through the trap-door, Mr. Spears was evidently afraid it might break the window just opposite, in the east wall of the floor below, and was trying to push the spouting to one side. The spouting suddenly slipped, taking up three or four feet of slack in the rope, and at the same time the spouting swung toward Mr. Spears and struck him an unexpected blow on the shoulder, causing him to lose his balance and plunge head-first through the opening. While falling he made an ineffectual effort to grasp a projecting ledge or joist on the sidewall. He first struck on the side of his head on the edge of the flooring twelve feet below, glanced off and landed on his side twelve feet further down, on the first-floor of the mill, on top of a small pile of flour sweepings. It all happened within almost the wink of an eye and before Mr. Davidson or Mr. Rossbach could even raise a hand to help him or save him from falling. They rushed down the stairs and found Mr. Spears lying unconscious and bleeding on the floor.
Mr. Davidson at once sent in a phone call for medical assistance and Dr. Kerr was on the scene within a very few minutes. He expressed the opinion at once that Mr. Spears injuries would probably result fatally, but he was rushed to the Akron Hospital, where everything possible was done and relatives were summoned to the injured man's bedside. His injuries consisted of a fractured skull, a broken arm and body bruises. He did not regain consciousness and passed away at the hospital about an hour and a half after the accident.
The sad and sudden death of Mr. Spears has cast a gloom over the community, and to his wife and six children there is a, sincere outpouring of sympathy in their great bereavement. While the fatal accident was entirely unavoidable and not the result of carelessness or negligence on the part of his fellow workmen, his death came us a hard blow to his good friends. Messrs. Davidson and Rossbach, who were working along with him at the time, and they were deeply touched by the tragedy enacted, which they were, of course, powerless to prevent.
Mr. Spears had lived in Akron nearly thirty years and was 54 years, 10 months of age. He was a citizen of the finest type, a skilled and conscientious workman, a devoted husband and father and a man whom every one esteemed and respected. He counted his friends by his acquaintances and his sad and sudden taking away from the activities of life will he widely mourned. Mr. Spears was deacon in the Akron Baptist church and superintendent of the Sunday school.
A suitable obituary will appear in these columns next week. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. A.L. MacMillan on Friday afternoon, this week, at 2 o'clock at the home and at 2:30 o'clock in the Baptist church. Members of the local Masonic lodge, of which the deceased was a member, will attend the services in a body and exemplify the Masonic burial service in Riverside cemetery
[Source: The Akron Register Tribune; Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA; Thursday, February 24, 1927; Volume 40, Number 30, Page 8]
OBITUARY
The facts concerning the accidental death of I.E. Spears as the result of a fall while he was at work in the Akron Flour and Feed Mills on Tuesday afternoon of last week were set forth in the last issue of this paper.
Isaac Edward Spears was born December 31, 1873 at Hamilton, Georgia, and was translated into the new and greater life on February 22, 1927, aged 53 years, 1 month and 22 days. Mr. Spears was the twelfth of a family of thirteen children—seven sisters and five brothers —and of these, Charles J. Spears, of Waxahachie, Texas, is the only member of the family to keep up a continued correspondence the past 25 years.
He spent his boyhood and young manhood in the south and in New York State, coming to Akron in the fall of 1900. He was united in marriage with Miss Ethel Shedd in Akron, Iowa, November 27, 1906. There came to gladden this union seven children—Roger, who preceded his father in death May 30, 1918; Evelyn, Stanley, Raymond, Edmond, Naomi and Frances. Mr. Spears followed his trade as a carpenter during all the time he was a resident of Akron, except for a short time after coming here, when he conducted a confectionery store. He gained a wide reputation as being a careful, painstaking and competent workman. A man of fine character and pleasant personality, he gained the esteem and friendship of all with whom he came in contact. He united with the Baptist church of Akron, November 4, 1900; in which he held the office of deacon for nineteen years, and was church clerk, assistant chorister and Sunday school superintendent, also serving, on the auditing committee, pulpit committee and was chairman for many business committees, always a faithful laborer and a true, consistent Christian. He was a public spirited citizen of the community and served as a member of the town council a few years ago. He was a particularly kind and devoted husband and father, and it is in the homo where his loss will be most keenly felt, although the entire community deeply mourns the passing of such an upright and useful citizen.
After a brief service at the family home, funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock last Friday afternoon in the Baptist church and there was a large attendance. Rev. A.L. MacMillan conducted the service and paid a fitting tribute to his life and character. Favorite hymns were sung by a quartet. Members of Freedom lodge, A.F. & A.M., with which order the deceased was affiliated, attended the services in a body and assisted in the solemn and impressive Masonic burial service in Riverside cemetery.
[Source: The Akron Register Tribune; Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA; Thursday, March 3, 1927; Volume 40, Number 31, Page 1]
Not for a long time has this community been shocked and saddened as by the tragic death of I.E. Spears, a well-known carpenter and citizen of this city as the result of an accident which befell him at the plant of the Akron Flour and Feed Mill shortly after four o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
W.J. Davidson, proprietor of the mill, has had a force of men at work the past few weeks dismantling the flouring machinery and getting it ready to ship to parties in Wisconsin, who bought it for use in a mill there. All of the heavy equipment had been removed from the second and third floors of the mill and lowered through trap-doors in the floors, provided for that particular purpose.
When the fatal accident happened, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Spears and Henry Rossbach were starting to lower a long section of wooden spouting through the opening in the third floor. A block and tackle had been rigged above and the rope was attached to the spouting. As the end of the wooden section was being lowered through the trap-door, Mr. Spears was evidently afraid it might break the window just opposite, in the east wall of the floor below, and was trying to push the spouting to one side. The spouting suddenly slipped, taking up three or four feet of slack in the rope, and at the same time the spouting swung toward Mr. Spears and struck him an unexpected blow on the shoulder, causing him to lose his balance and plunge head-first through the opening. While falling he made an ineffectual effort to grasp a projecting ledge or joist on the sidewall. He first struck on the side of his head on the edge of the flooring twelve feet below, glanced off and landed on his side twelve feet further down, on the first-floor of the mill, on top of a small pile of flour sweepings. It all happened within almost the wink of an eye and before Mr. Davidson or Mr. Rossbach could even raise a hand to help him or save him from falling. They rushed down the stairs and found Mr. Spears lying unconscious and bleeding on the floor.
Mr. Davidson at once sent in a phone call for medical assistance and Dr. Kerr was on the scene within a very few minutes. He expressed the opinion at once that Mr. Spears injuries would probably result fatally, but he was rushed to the Akron Hospital, where everything possible was done and relatives were summoned to the injured man's bedside. His injuries consisted of a fractured skull, a broken arm and body bruises. He did not regain consciousness and passed away at the hospital about an hour and a half after the accident.
The sad and sudden death of Mr. Spears has cast a gloom over the community, and to his wife and six children there is a, sincere outpouring of sympathy in their great bereavement. While the fatal accident was entirely unavoidable and not the result of carelessness or negligence on the part of his fellow workmen, his death came us a hard blow to his good friends. Messrs. Davidson and Rossbach, who were working along with him at the time, and they were deeply touched by the tragedy enacted, which they were, of course, powerless to prevent.
Mr. Spears had lived in Akron nearly thirty years and was 54 years, 10 months of age. He was a citizen of the finest type, a skilled and conscientious workman, a devoted husband and father and a man whom every one esteemed and respected. He counted his friends by his acquaintances and his sad and sudden taking away from the activities of life will he widely mourned. Mr. Spears was deacon in the Akron Baptist church and superintendent of the Sunday school.
A suitable obituary will appear in these columns next week. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. A.L. MacMillan on Friday afternoon, this week, at 2 o'clock at the home and at 2:30 o'clock in the Baptist church. Members of the local Masonic lodge, of which the deceased was a member, will attend the services in a body and exemplify the Masonic burial service in Riverside cemetery
[Source: The Akron Register Tribune; Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA; Thursday, February 24, 1927; Volume 40, Number 30, Page 8]
OBITUARY
The facts concerning the accidental death of I.E. Spears as the result of a fall while he was at work in the Akron Flour and Feed Mills on Tuesday afternoon of last week were set forth in the last issue of this paper.
Isaac Edward Spears was born December 31, 1873 at Hamilton, Georgia, and was translated into the new and greater life on February 22, 1927, aged 53 years, 1 month and 22 days. Mr. Spears was the twelfth of a family of thirteen children—seven sisters and five brothers —and of these, Charles J. Spears, of Waxahachie, Texas, is the only member of the family to keep up a continued correspondence the past 25 years.
He spent his boyhood and young manhood in the south and in New York State, coming to Akron in the fall of 1900. He was united in marriage with Miss Ethel Shedd in Akron, Iowa, November 27, 1906. There came to gladden this union seven children—Roger, who preceded his father in death May 30, 1918; Evelyn, Stanley, Raymond, Edmond, Naomi and Frances. Mr. Spears followed his trade as a carpenter during all the time he was a resident of Akron, except for a short time after coming here, when he conducted a confectionery store. He gained a wide reputation as being a careful, painstaking and competent workman. A man of fine character and pleasant personality, he gained the esteem and friendship of all with whom he came in contact. He united with the Baptist church of Akron, November 4, 1900; in which he held the office of deacon for nineteen years, and was church clerk, assistant chorister and Sunday school superintendent, also serving, on the auditing committee, pulpit committee and was chairman for many business committees, always a faithful laborer and a true, consistent Christian. He was a public spirited citizen of the community and served as a member of the town council a few years ago. He was a particularly kind and devoted husband and father, and it is in the homo where his loss will be most keenly felt, although the entire community deeply mourns the passing of such an upright and useful citizen.
After a brief service at the family home, funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock last Friday afternoon in the Baptist church and there was a large attendance. Rev. A.L. MacMillan conducted the service and paid a fitting tribute to his life and character. Favorite hymns were sung by a quartet. Members of Freedom lodge, A.F. & A.M., with which order the deceased was affiliated, attended the services in a body and assisted in the solemn and impressive Masonic burial service in Riverside cemetery.
[Source: The Akron Register Tribune; Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA; Thursday, March 3, 1927; Volume 40, Number 31, Page 1]
FALL RESULTS IN DEATH
Not for a long time has this community been shocked and saddened as by the tragic death of I.E. Spears, a well-known carpenter and citizen of this city as the result of an accident which befell him at the plant of the Akron Flour and Feed Mill shortly after four o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
W.J. Davidson, proprietor of the mill, has had a force of men at work the past few weeks dismantling the flouring machinery and getting it ready to ship to parties in Wisconsin, who bought it for use in a mill there. All of the heavy equipment had been removed from the second and third floors of the mill and lowered through trap-doors in the floors, provided for that particular purpose.
When the fatal accident happened, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Spears and Henry Rossbach were starting to lower a long section of wooden spouting through the opening in the third floor. A block and tackle had been rigged above and the rope was attached to the spouting. As the end of the wooden section was being lowered through the trap-door, Mr. Spears was evidently afraid it might break the window just opposite, in the east wall of the floor below, and was trying to push the spouting to one side. The spouting suddenly slipped, taking up three or four feet of slack in the rope, and at the same time the spouting swung toward Mr. Spears and struck him an unexpected blow on the shoulder, causing him to lose his balance and plunge head-first through the opening. While falling he made an ineffectual effort to grasp a projecting ledge or joist on the sidewall. He first struck on the side of his head on the edge of the flooring twelve feet below, glanced off and landed on his side twelve feet further down, on the first-floor of the mill, on top of a small pile of flour sweepings. It all happened within almost the wink of an eye and before Mr. Davidson or Mr. Rossbach could even raise a hand to help him or save him from falling. They rushed down the stairs and found Mr. Spears lying unconscious and bleeding on the floor.
Mr. Davidson at once sent in a phone call for medical assistance and Dr. Kerr was on the scene within a very few minutes. He expressed the opinion at once that Mr. Spears injuries would probably result fatally, but he was rushed to the Akron Hospital, where everything possible was done and relatives were summoned to the injured man's bedside. His injuries consisted of a fractured skull, a broken arm and body bruises. He did not regain consciousness and passed away at the hospital about an hour and a half after the accident.
The sad and sudden death of Mr. Spears has cast a gloom over the community, and to his wife and six children there is a, sincere outpouring of sympathy in their great bereavement. While the fatal accident was entirely unavoidable and not the result of carelessness or negligence on the part of his fellow workmen, his death came us a hard blow to his good friends. Messrs. Davidson and Rossbach, who were working along with him at the time, and they were deeply touched by the tragedy enacted, which they were, of course, powerless to prevent.
Mr. Spears had lived in Akron nearly thirty years and was 54 years, 10 months of age. He was a citizen of the finest type, a skilled and conscientious workman, a devoted husband and father and a man whom every one esteemed and respected. He counted his friends by his acquaintances and his sad and sudden taking away from the activities of life will he widely mourned. Mr. Spears was deacon in the Akron Baptist church and superintendent of the Sunday school.
A suitable obituary will appear in these columns next week. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. A.L. MacMillan on Friday afternoon, this week, at 2 o'clock at the home and at 2:30 o'clock in the Baptist church. Members of the local Masonic lodge, of which the deceased was a member, will attend the services in a body and exemplify the Masonic burial service in Riverside cemetery
[Source: The Akron Register Tribune; Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA; Thursday, February 24, 1927; Volume 40, Number 30, Page 8]
OBITUARY
The facts concerning the accidental death of I.E. Spears as the result of a fall while he was at work in the Akron Flour and Feed Mills on Tuesday afternoon of last week were set forth in the last issue of this paper.
Isaac Edward Spears was born December 31, 1873 at Hamilton, Georgia, and was translated into the new and greater life on February 22, 1927, aged 53 years, 1 month and 22 days. Mr. Spears was the twelfth of a family of thirteen children—seven sisters and five brothers —and of these, Charles J. Spears, of Waxahachie, Texas, is the only member of the family to keep up a continued correspondence the past 25 years.
He spent his boyhood and young manhood in the south and in New York State, coming to Akron in the fall of 1900. He was united in marriage with Miss Ethel Shedd in Akron, Iowa, November 27, 1906. There came to gladden this union seven children—Roger, who preceded his father in death May 30, 1918; Evelyn, Stanley, Raymond, Edmond, Naomi and Frances. Mr. Spears followed his trade as a carpenter during all the time he was a resident of Akron, except for a short time after coming here, when he conducted a confectionery store. He gained a wide reputation as being a careful, painstaking and competent workman. A man of fine character and pleasant personality, he gained the esteem and friendship of all with whom he came in contact. He united with the Baptist church of Akron, November 4, 1900; in which he held the office of deacon for nineteen years, and was church clerk, assistant chorister and Sunday school superintendent, also serving, on the auditing committee, pulpit committee and was chairman for many business committees, always a faithful laborer and a true, consistent Christian. He was a public spirited citizen of the community and served as a member of the town council a few years ago. He was a particularly kind and devoted husband and father, and it is in the homo where his loss will be most keenly felt, although the entire community deeply mourns the passing of such an upright and useful citizen.
After a brief service at the family home, funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock last Friday afternoon in the Baptist church and there was a large attendance. Rev. A.L. MacMillan conducted the service and paid a fitting tribute to his life and character. Favorite hymns were sung by a quartet. Members of Freedom lodge, A.F. & A.M., with which order the deceased was affiliated, attended the services in a body and assisted in the solemn and impressive Masonic burial service in Riverside cemetery.
[Source: The Akron Register Tribune; Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA; Thursday, March 3, 1927; Volume 40, Number 31, Page 1]
Not for a long time has this community been shocked and saddened as by the tragic death of I.E. Spears, a well-known carpenter and citizen of this city as the result of an accident which befell him at the plant of the Akron Flour and Feed Mill shortly after four o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
W.J. Davidson, proprietor of the mill, has had a force of men at work the past few weeks dismantling the flouring machinery and getting it ready to ship to parties in Wisconsin, who bought it for use in a mill there. All of the heavy equipment had been removed from the second and third floors of the mill and lowered through trap-doors in the floors, provided for that particular purpose.
When the fatal accident happened, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Spears and Henry Rossbach were starting to lower a long section of wooden spouting through the opening in the third floor. A block and tackle had been rigged above and the rope was attached to the spouting. As the end of the wooden section was being lowered through the trap-door, Mr. Spears was evidently afraid it might break the window just opposite, in the east wall of the floor below, and was trying to push the spouting to one side. The spouting suddenly slipped, taking up three or four feet of slack in the rope, and at the same time the spouting swung toward Mr. Spears and struck him an unexpected blow on the shoulder, causing him to lose his balance and plunge head-first through the opening. While falling he made an ineffectual effort to grasp a projecting ledge or joist on the sidewall. He first struck on the side of his head on the edge of the flooring twelve feet below, glanced off and landed on his side twelve feet further down, on the first-floor of the mill, on top of a small pile of flour sweepings. It all happened within almost the wink of an eye and before Mr. Davidson or Mr. Rossbach could even raise a hand to help him or save him from falling. They rushed down the stairs and found Mr. Spears lying unconscious and bleeding on the floor.
Mr. Davidson at once sent in a phone call for medical assistance and Dr. Kerr was on the scene within a very few minutes. He expressed the opinion at once that Mr. Spears injuries would probably result fatally, but he was rushed to the Akron Hospital, where everything possible was done and relatives were summoned to the injured man's bedside. His injuries consisted of a fractured skull, a broken arm and body bruises. He did not regain consciousness and passed away at the hospital about an hour and a half after the accident.
The sad and sudden death of Mr. Spears has cast a gloom over the community, and to his wife and six children there is a, sincere outpouring of sympathy in their great bereavement. While the fatal accident was entirely unavoidable and not the result of carelessness or negligence on the part of his fellow workmen, his death came us a hard blow to his good friends. Messrs. Davidson and Rossbach, who were working along with him at the time, and they were deeply touched by the tragedy enacted, which they were, of course, powerless to prevent.
Mr. Spears had lived in Akron nearly thirty years and was 54 years, 10 months of age. He was a citizen of the finest type, a skilled and conscientious workman, a devoted husband and father and a man whom every one esteemed and respected. He counted his friends by his acquaintances and his sad and sudden taking away from the activities of life will he widely mourned. Mr. Spears was deacon in the Akron Baptist church and superintendent of the Sunday school.
A suitable obituary will appear in these columns next week. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. A.L. MacMillan on Friday afternoon, this week, at 2 o'clock at the home and at 2:30 o'clock in the Baptist church. Members of the local Masonic lodge, of which the deceased was a member, will attend the services in a body and exemplify the Masonic burial service in Riverside cemetery
[Source: The Akron Register Tribune; Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA; Thursday, February 24, 1927; Volume 40, Number 30, Page 8]
OBITUARY
The facts concerning the accidental death of I.E. Spears as the result of a fall while he was at work in the Akron Flour and Feed Mills on Tuesday afternoon of last week were set forth in the last issue of this paper.
Isaac Edward Spears was born December 31, 1873 at Hamilton, Georgia, and was translated into the new and greater life on February 22, 1927, aged 53 years, 1 month and 22 days. Mr. Spears was the twelfth of a family of thirteen children—seven sisters and five brothers —and of these, Charles J. Spears, of Waxahachie, Texas, is the only member of the family to keep up a continued correspondence the past 25 years.
He spent his boyhood and young manhood in the south and in New York State, coming to Akron in the fall of 1900. He was united in marriage with Miss Ethel Shedd in Akron, Iowa, November 27, 1906. There came to gladden this union seven children—Roger, who preceded his father in death May 30, 1918; Evelyn, Stanley, Raymond, Edmond, Naomi and Frances. Mr. Spears followed his trade as a carpenter during all the time he was a resident of Akron, except for a short time after coming here, when he conducted a confectionery store. He gained a wide reputation as being a careful, painstaking and competent workman. A man of fine character and pleasant personality, he gained the esteem and friendship of all with whom he came in contact. He united with the Baptist church of Akron, November 4, 1900; in which he held the office of deacon for nineteen years, and was church clerk, assistant chorister and Sunday school superintendent, also serving, on the auditing committee, pulpit committee and was chairman for many business committees, always a faithful laborer and a true, consistent Christian. He was a public spirited citizen of the community and served as a member of the town council a few years ago. He was a particularly kind and devoted husband and father, and it is in the homo where his loss will be most keenly felt, although the entire community deeply mourns the passing of such an upright and useful citizen.
After a brief service at the family home, funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock last Friday afternoon in the Baptist church and there was a large attendance. Rev. A.L. MacMillan conducted the service and paid a fitting tribute to his life and character. Favorite hymns were sung by a quartet. Members of Freedom lodge, A.F. & A.M., with which order the deceased was affiliated, attended the services in a body and assisted in the solemn and impressive Masonic burial service in Riverside cemetery.
[Source: The Akron Register Tribune; Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA; Thursday, March 3, 1927; Volume 40, Number 31, Page 1]
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