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Oscar W. Wilkins

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Oscar W. Wilkins

Birth
Peoa, Summit County, Utah, USA
Death
21 Jan 1911 (aged 29)
Wasatch County, Utah, USA
Burial
Peoa, Summit County, Utah, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.7311374, Longitude: -111.3457935
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DEATH NOTICE: The Manti Messenger, Friday 17 February 1911:
Met Death In Snowslide
Park City, Utah – Searchers found the body of O. W. Wilkins, superintendent of schools of Summit county, who disappeared January 21, in a ditch in a ravine of South Fork canyon, twenty-four miles west of Theodore at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Wilkins was a victim of the snowslide that occurred in South Fork canyon January 22, the day following his departure from Theodore for his home in Peoa. The slide was 100 feet deep in places.

Info from his death certificate: His body was found on Feb 9, 1911.
(Thank you to contributor Blaine & Elaine Berger for this info.)

Son of Oscar Wilkins & Elizabeth Durrah.
DEATH NOTICE: The Manti Messenger, Friday 17 February 1911:
Met Death In Snowslide
Park City, Utah – Searchers found the body of O. W. Wilkins, superintendent of schools of Summit county, who disappeared January 21, in a ditch in a ravine of South Fork canyon, twenty-four miles west of Theodore at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Wilkins was a victim of the snowslide that occurred in South Fork canyon January 22, the day following his departure from Theodore for his home in Peoa. The slide was 100 feet deep in places.

Info from his death certificate: His body was found on Feb 9, 1911.
(Thank you to contributor Blaine & Elaine Berger for this info.)

Son of Oscar Wilkins & Elizabeth Durrah.


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