Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Jenks, Grover 1910
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, March 10, 1910

A telegram was received here Monday, from the State of Washington, notifying 
Dell Jenks of the death of Grover Jenks, who was one of the victims in the 
terrible disaster at Wellington, Wash., caused by the great snow slide down 
the mountain, March 4th.  The telegram was placed in the hands of undertaker 
Ben Friedly, who replied and asked that the remains be forwarded here at once.

Grover Jenks is the son of the late Silas Jenks, aged about 24 years and a 
nephew of A.A. Jenks of Fairplains, he worked for George Ravell five years 
leaving there about four years ago for the west.  He was a fine young man, 
unmarried, steady and prosperous, and owned a farm in Fairplains.

At this writing it is not known whether he was a workman for the railroad 
company or a passenger on the train, as no particulars of his death had been 
received.  It is expected the body will arrive this week.

The avalanche was the most terrible in its destruction of property and lives 
ever known in history.  In some places cars were buried under 70 feet of snow, 
trees and rocks, as the trains rolled down into the gorge hundreds of feet 
below the track.



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