Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Fuller, Francis D. 1911
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Belding Banner - Thursday, 23 Feb 1911
One of the most terrible accidents that has ever occurred in this city took 
place at the Ballou Manufacturing Company’s plant Wednesday morning about nine 
o’clock, when Francis Fuller fell into the tank full of hot water used for 
steaming the logs before being used for manufacturing baskets.  He was using a 
pike pole to get some logs in position for hauling them out of the tank with 
the grappling hooks when in some manner he slipped and fell headlong over the 
edge of the tank into the seething mass of water.  The splash was heard by Wm. 
Wright and Mr. Eberhard who rushed to his assistance just as he was coming to 
the surface and both grappled the unfortunate man and pulled him out.  He was 
at once taken to the engine room where his clothes were changed and a hack 
called to take him home.  Drs. Stanton and Little were summoned and found him 
very badly scalded on all parts of the body and also having inhaled 
considerable steam and hot water into his mouth and lungs.  They at once 
concluded he could not survive the shock and after lying in great suffering 
until about eight o’clock in the evening he passed away, having kissed his 
family and bidden them goodby before lapsing into unconsciousness, knowing 
that he could not live.  He leaves a wife and eight children, five boys and 
three girls, and came here about a year ago from a farm near Howard City.  The 
funeral will be held at the home Friday afternoon and the remains taken to 
Coral for burial.  Mr. Fuller carried a life insurance of $1,000 in the Ben 
Hur order.  An inquest will be held with a coroner’s jury before E. B. 
Lapham.  A purse of one hundred dollars was made up among factory men and 
others for the immediate relief of the grief stricken family.

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