Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Whitacre, George O. 1897
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The Portland Observer, Wednesday, July 28, 1897

George Whitacre, a farmer living southwest of town in Danby township, met with 
an accident on Tuesday afternoon last which resulted in his death in a few 
hours.  

He was stacking hay and the stack was to quite a height, and in assisting to 
raise the poles of a hay derrick they fell over and one of them struck him on 
the head, fracturing his skull; one arm was also broken and he was otherwise 
injured.  He was conveyed to the house and died a few hours afterward.

Mr. Whitacre was a good citizen, honorable and upright, always attending o his 
own business and respected by his neighbors.   He was 34 years of age and 
leaves a wife and one young child.

The funeral services were held from the Methodist church in this village on 
Thursday morning last, Rev. Millard officiating and the Maccabees of which 
deceased was a member and in which he carried $1,000 insurance, attending the 
funeral in a body, accompanied by a fair representation of the members of the 
L.O.T.M.

It was but a week before his death that Mr. Whitacre had been reinstated in 
the Maccabees, after having allowed his policy to lapse, through the efforts 
of his wife, who was the beneficiary.



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