Father to Lawrence Benjamin Jones
The Salt Lake Tribune June 10, 1926 page 18
FARMER KILLED BY LIGHTING
Richard Benjamin Jones 50, Eden, Is Victim of Bolt While at Work.
Ogden - June 9- A brief but violent electric storm which visited Ogden at 4:30 o'clock
this afternoon took a toll of one life.
Richard Benjamin Jones 50, a farmer of Eden, was instantly killed when struck by lightening as he was raking hay in a field near the mouth of Ogden Canyon. Belonging to the Ogden Realty & Investment Company., The blot struck the right side of his head and went through his body. His clothes were burned from his body and a large hole burned on the right side of the head.
Five men working in the same field almost 200 yards from the spot where Mr. Jones fell dead saw his team running away, and then proceeded to body. An investigation was made by Deputy sheriff J. J. Murphy, after which the body was removed to the Lindquist undertaking parlers.
Mrs. Jones was born in North Ogden October 27, 1876, the son of Richard and Viola Cazier Jones. Surviving are his father, of Ogden, a stepmother, Clara Jones: his widow Diana Heninger Jones, and six children: Preston R., Lawrence B. Bryon S, Olive L. Violoa Louise and Virginia Jones, of Eden; four brothers Clarence, Newell, Louis and Frederick Jones of Eden; three sisters: Mrs. Thlnes Thurward, Breaumont, Texas, Mrs. Phillip Ferrin, Ogden,and Mrs. Minerva Chard, Liberty, and two step- sisters, Mrs. Earl Southwick, Ogden, and Mrs. Nettie Brown Rigby, Idaho.
The Salt Lake Tribune June 10, 1926 page 18
FARMER KILLED BY LIGHTING
Richard Benjamin Jones 50, Eden, Is Victim of Bolt While at Work.
Ogden - June 9- A brief but violent electric storm which visited Ogden at 4:30 o'clock
this afternoon took a toll of one life.
Richard Benjamin Jones 50, a farmer of Eden, was instantly killed when struck by lightening as he was raking hay in a field near the mouth of Ogden Canyon. Belonging to the Ogden Realty & Investment Company., The blot struck the right side of his head and went through his body. His clothes were burned from his body and a large hole burned on the right side of the head.
Five men working in the same field almost 200 yards from the spot where Mr. Jones fell dead saw his team running away, and then proceeded to body. An investigation was made by Deputy sheriff J. J. Murphy, after which the body was removed to the Lindquist undertaking parlers.
Mrs. Jones was born in North Ogden October 27, 1876, the son of Richard and Viola Cazier Jones. Surviving are his father, of Ogden, a stepmother, Clara Jones: his widow Diana Heninger Jones, and six children: Preston R., Lawrence B. Bryon S, Olive L. Violoa Louise and Virginia Jones, of Eden; four brothers Clarence, Newell, Louis and Frederick Jones of Eden; three sisters: Mrs. Thlnes Thurward, Breaumont, Texas, Mrs. Phillip Ferrin, Ogden,and Mrs. Minerva Chard, Liberty, and two step- sisters, Mrs. Earl Southwick, Ogden, and Mrs. Nettie Brown Rigby, Idaho.
Father to Lawrence Benjamin Jones
The Salt Lake Tribune June 10, 1926 page 18
FARMER KILLED BY LIGHTING
Richard Benjamin Jones 50, Eden, Is Victim of Bolt While at Work.
Ogden - June 9- A brief but violent electric storm which visited Ogden at 4:30 o'clock
this afternoon took a toll of one life.
Richard Benjamin Jones 50, a farmer of Eden, was instantly killed when struck by lightening as he was raking hay in a field near the mouth of Ogden Canyon. Belonging to the Ogden Realty & Investment Company., The blot struck the right side of his head and went through his body. His clothes were burned from his body and a large hole burned on the right side of the head.
Five men working in the same field almost 200 yards from the spot where Mr. Jones fell dead saw his team running away, and then proceeded to body. An investigation was made by Deputy sheriff J. J. Murphy, after which the body was removed to the Lindquist undertaking parlers.
Mrs. Jones was born in North Ogden October 27, 1876, the son of Richard and Viola Cazier Jones. Surviving are his father, of Ogden, a stepmother, Clara Jones: his widow Diana Heninger Jones, and six children: Preston R., Lawrence B. Bryon S, Olive L. Violoa Louise and Virginia Jones, of Eden; four brothers Clarence, Newell, Louis and Frederick Jones of Eden; three sisters: Mrs. Thlnes Thurward, Breaumont, Texas, Mrs. Phillip Ferrin, Ogden,and Mrs. Minerva Chard, Liberty, and two step- sisters, Mrs. Earl Southwick, Ogden, and Mrs. Nettie Brown Rigby, Idaho.
The Salt Lake Tribune June 10, 1926 page 18
FARMER KILLED BY LIGHTING
Richard Benjamin Jones 50, Eden, Is Victim of Bolt While at Work.
Ogden - June 9- A brief but violent electric storm which visited Ogden at 4:30 o'clock
this afternoon took a toll of one life.
Richard Benjamin Jones 50, a farmer of Eden, was instantly killed when struck by lightening as he was raking hay in a field near the mouth of Ogden Canyon. Belonging to the Ogden Realty & Investment Company., The blot struck the right side of his head and went through his body. His clothes were burned from his body and a large hole burned on the right side of the head.
Five men working in the same field almost 200 yards from the spot where Mr. Jones fell dead saw his team running away, and then proceeded to body. An investigation was made by Deputy sheriff J. J. Murphy, after which the body was removed to the Lindquist undertaking parlers.
Mrs. Jones was born in North Ogden October 27, 1876, the son of Richard and Viola Cazier Jones. Surviving are his father, of Ogden, a stepmother, Clara Jones: his widow Diana Heninger Jones, and six children: Preston R., Lawrence B. Bryon S, Olive L. Violoa Louise and Virginia Jones, of Eden; four brothers Clarence, Newell, Louis and Frederick Jones of Eden; three sisters: Mrs. Thlnes Thurward, Breaumont, Texas, Mrs. Phillip Ferrin, Ogden,and Mrs. Minerva Chard, Liberty, and two step- sisters, Mrs. Earl Southwick, Ogden, and Mrs. Nettie Brown Rigby, Idaho.
