Utah
According to the Evanston City Cemetery records: burial date 12-2-1918; aged 35; cause/wagon rolled over embankment.
CROSS, Walter R. -- was born at Corydon, Wayne County, Iowa, July 3rd, 1881, and was killed last Monday evening near Granger, Wyoming, when a wagon he was riding loaded with supplies, fell over an embankment upon him, breaking his neck. He had worked for the Union Pacific for eighteen years, and had recently taken up a homestead, to which he was driving when the accident occurred. Deceased was a son of J. J. Cross of this, city, and is also survived by a wife and five children : half-brother, Herschel Cross. He was an Odd Fellow and Spanish American War veteran, and all regret of his untimely demise. The remains were brought to Evanston and the funeral will be at the L. D. S. church Friday at 2 o'clock.
Interment in Odd Fellows cemetery. Directors Beeman & Cashin. [The Wyoming Times, Thursday, December 5, 1918]
According to the Evanston City Cemetery records: burial date 12-2-1918; aged 35; cause/wagon rolled over embankment.
CROSS, Walter R. -- was born at Corydon, Wayne County, Iowa, July 3rd, 1881, and was killed last Monday evening near Granger, Wyoming, when a wagon he was riding loaded with supplies, fell over an embankment upon him, breaking his neck. He had worked for the Union Pacific for eighteen years, and had recently taken up a homestead, to which he was driving when the accident occurred. Deceased was a son of J. J. Cross of this, city, and is also survived by a wife and five children : half-brother, Herschel Cross. He was an Odd Fellow and Spanish American War veteran, and all regret of his untimely demise. The remains were brought to Evanston and the funeral will be at the L. D. S. church Friday at 2 o'clock.
Interment in Odd Fellows cemetery. Directors Beeman & Cashin. [The Wyoming Times, Thursday, December 5, 1918]
Utah
According to the Evanston City Cemetery records: burial date 12-2-1918; aged 35; cause/wagon rolled over embankment.
CROSS, Walter R. -- was born at Corydon, Wayne County, Iowa, July 3rd, 1881, and was killed last Monday evening near Granger, Wyoming, when a wagon he was riding loaded with supplies, fell over an embankment upon him, breaking his neck. He had worked for the Union Pacific for eighteen years, and had recently taken up a homestead, to which he was driving when the accident occurred. Deceased was a son of J. J. Cross of this, city, and is also survived by a wife and five children : half-brother, Herschel Cross. He was an Odd Fellow and Spanish American War veteran, and all regret of his untimely demise. The remains were brought to Evanston and the funeral will be at the L. D. S. church Friday at 2 o'clock.
Interment in Odd Fellows cemetery. Directors Beeman & Cashin. [The Wyoming Times, Thursday, December 5, 1918]
According to the Evanston City Cemetery records: burial date 12-2-1918; aged 35; cause/wagon rolled over embankment.
CROSS, Walter R. -- was born at Corydon, Wayne County, Iowa, July 3rd, 1881, and was killed last Monday evening near Granger, Wyoming, when a wagon he was riding loaded with supplies, fell over an embankment upon him, breaking his neck. He had worked for the Union Pacific for eighteen years, and had recently taken up a homestead, to which he was driving when the accident occurred. Deceased was a son of J. J. Cross of this, city, and is also survived by a wife and five children : half-brother, Herschel Cross. He was an Odd Fellow and Spanish American War veteran, and all regret of his untimely demise. The remains were brought to Evanston and the funeral will be at the L. D. S. church Friday at 2 o'clock.
Interment in Odd Fellows cemetery. Directors Beeman & Cashin. [The Wyoming Times, Thursday, December 5, 1918]
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