Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Mathew, Tom March 7, 1906
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Lake O. Wave, Friday, March 9, 1906

KILLED BY LIVE WIRE

Telephone Lineman is Electrocuted at Nashville

NASHVILLE, Mich., March 7. Tom Mathews, a lineman for the Citizens Telephone 
company, was instantly killed by coming in contact with a live wire. He was on a 
pole and was in the act of straightening out some wires, when his head touched a 
wire o the Thornapple Electric company, which was on the same pole.

Mathews was about 30 years old his parents living in Grand Rapids, and a wife at 
Ionia.

Only a few days ago he told one of his companions that he was going to quite his 
job soon.

At a point where he was killed the wires of the Electric company are only about 
2 feed above the telephone wires and it is said that the lineman complained 
about working so close to them. -G.R. Herold

Additional Comments:
Mt. Calvary cemetery, Grand Rapids, MI

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