SEAL OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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SEAL, Dwight 1893 - 1939

Unknown Newspaper Clipping, Mar 23 1939 - Tragic Accident takes life of Dwight 
Seal at Farm Home Tuesday When Scaffold holding lunber gives way - Struck by 
falling board-neck broken - The entire community was shocked and saddened 
Tuesday afternoon when word was telephoned into Windsor of the tragic death of 
Dwight Seal at the Seal farm about 3 1/2 miles north of Windsor on the Knob 
Noster road. Dwight Seal with his father, Frank Seal, of Windsor had been storing 
some used lumber in the barn expecting to use it to build a larger chicken house 
later on. A scaffold had been built of heavy two by sixes on one side of the 
driveway in the barn and the lumber neatly stacked at each end of this scaffold 
to take the weight away from the center as much as possible. Dwight Seal and his 
father and the former's three year old daughter, Lois, had been in the barn 
working and had discussed the strength of the scaffold and braces. This was 
about 1:30 o'clock. Mr. Seal and little granddaughter had just gone outside the 
barn when the scaffold gave way at one end, pinning Dwight under it. Mr. Seal 
heard him call "Dad, Oh! Dad!" several times, and rushed back into the barn but 
could not rescue him so called for Mrs. Seal and they gave the alarm and 
neighbors and passersby responded very quickly and assisted in getting young 
Seal out, but life was thought to be extinct before he was removed to the yard. In 
the meantime two doctors who had been summoned from Windsor arrived and 
pronounced him dead. Upon examination it was found that his neck had been 
broken, but there were no other injuries on his body. Dwight Seal was a telegraph 
operator with the Rock Island Railroad and had twenty years seniority but had not 
had steady work the past five years owing to economic conditions that caused 
many men to be laid of temporarily. During this time he and his family came from 
their home at Greenwood, Missouri, to the parental home. Later Mr. Seal improved 
his farm with his son's assistance and the younger Seal and his family moved to 
the farm. There was a very close tie between Mr. and Mrs. Frank Seal and their 
son and his family and very few days passed that the families were not together 
at some time during the day at one home or the other. Dwight Seal, the only child 
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Seal, was born July 13, 1893 at Falls City, Nebraska, and 
died as stated above Tuesday, March 21, 1939. He learned to be a telegraph 
operator in his early youth under his father, who has been employed at the Rock 
Island station in Windsor for many years. Young Seal was operator at Greenwood, 
Missouri a number of years and while there married Mary Ellen Copeland of 
Greenwood. To this union two children were born, Gloria, 6 and Lois 3 years of 
age. He served in the World War and was a member of the Windsor Post of the 
American Legion. He was an industrious but quiet man, devoted to his family and 
parents. He is survived by his two small daughters and his grief stricken wife 
and parents. The funeral service was held this afternoon (Thursday) at two 
o'clock at the funeral home, conducted by the Rev. E. L. Dillon, assisted by the Rev. 
G. R. Timbrook. Mrs. Kenneth Miller and Mrs. W. B. Chipman sang, accompanied by 
Mrs. Roy Milam on the piano. Pallbearers, all World War Veterans, were : Frank 
Coit, Virgil Twyman, P. J. Kirby, Herbert Cannon, Urvin Whitton, and Warren Beck. 
Burial was in Laurel Oak Cemetary, Windsor. 

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