Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Long, Clyde 1907
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Lake Odessa Wave, 9 Aug 1907

Taken Away Young.

Clyde Long Only Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Long.

Killed by Cars Near Huron So. Dakota – He and Companion Had Gone West to Work 
in Harvest Fields.

The following clippings taken from last Friday’s Free Press together with what 
was printed in last week’s Wave told the story briefly of the tragic ending of 
a promising young life and the crushing blow of the saddened news to the 
parents Mr. and Mrs. George Long and family northwest of town.

“Meets Death In West - Lake Odessa Man Horribly Mangled by Train.”

Huron, S. D., August 1, - Clyde Long, aged 23, of Lake Odessa, Mich., was 
killed by a great Northern freight train here today.  He and a companion were 
riding on the beam of a freight car, when the coupling broke and the train 
separated, Long falling beneath the wheels.  His head was crushed and his body 
fearfully mangled, resulting in almost instantaneous death.

Lake Odessa, Mich., Aug. 1 – Clyde Long, the Lake Odessa young man who was 
killed today at Huron, S. D., was the son of George Long, a prominent farmer 
living five and one-half miles from here.  Young Long left recently for the 
west to work in the harvest fields.” – Detroit Free Press.

The remains arrived here Friday morning and were taken at once in charge by 
undertaker Weed and made as presentable as possible, and then taken to the home 
Friday afternoon to be with the grief stricken family till the funeral Sunday.

The funeral was very largely attended, acquaintances as well as friends and 
relatives of the deceased and of the family coming many of them from a 
distance, Elder Mourer an old time near by neighbor conducting the service.  
About 150 teams were in the procession thus making it fully a mile in length, 
the large Dunkard church being unable to contain the vast assemblage of people  
Among those in attendance from Lake Odessa were Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Strong, 
Mr. and Mrs. John Bachelder, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tasker, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. 
Snobble, Mrs. Art Terry, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Dann, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Curtis and 
daughter Mabel, Verne Tasker and Clark Rogers.

Elder Mourer took for his text verse 24, psalm 102, “I said, O my God take me 
not away in the midst of my days,” and spoke of the desire of all to live and 
especially so during the periods of young womanhood and young manhood they 
being the most estimable periods of life.

The singing was by the choir from the Mennonite church.  The selections were 
well made and the different parts well given.

The deceased was born and brought up there at the home farm in east Campbell, 
the date of his birth being May 1, 1887 and that of his death July 31, 1907 
making him thus in his twenty first year.  He was a student here in our high 
school during the year 1903-1904.  Besides a father and mother he leaves four 
sisters, viz., Etta, Olive, Vesta and Minnie, he being next to the youngest in 
the family, also many other close relatives and friends to mourn his early, 
sudden and tragic death.

The bearers were Frank Geiser, Floyd Knapp, Chas. Mourer, Walter Tasker, Vern 
Tasker and Clark Rogers.

The floral offerings were especially large suggestive of the esteem in which 
the young man was held.  The remains were laid to rest in the Clarksville 
cemetery.

Later reports state that Clyde and his companion chanced a ride on the freight 
train to the next nearby town on account of the passenger train being behind 
time and seeing that the freight was there on hand ready to go.

The editor and family of the Wave join with the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. 
Long and family in extending sincere sympathy.


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