Gage County NeArchives Deaths.....Foley, Mike October 1, 1888 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ne/nefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Debra Crosby http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002467 July 29, 2019, 4:16 pm Name: Foley, Mike Date Of Death: October 1, 1888 Time: Place Of Death: Beatrice, NE Residence: Omaha, NE Gender: Male Race: Age: Unavailable Marital Status: Unk Spouse: Date Of Birth: Unavailable Place Of Birth: Unavailable Mother's Name: Unavailable, Unavailable Mother's Birthplace: Unavailable Father's Name: Unavailable, Unavailable Father's Birthplace: Unavailable Cause Of Death: Accident - 40 foot fall from scaffolding Hospital: Unavailable SS Number: Unavailable Occupation: stone mason Funeral Home: Unavailable Doctor: Unavailable Coroner: Unavailable Informant: Unavailable Date Of Burial: Unavailable Place Of Burial: Unavailable Date Recorded: Unavailable Source Of Record: Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, NE) Sat Nov 3, 1888 pg 8 Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, NE) Sat Nov 3, 1888 pg 8 An Omaha Man Killed Word reached this city yesterday that Mike Foley, a stone mason, was killed at Beatrice Wednesday evening. He was at work on the new Methodist church at that place, when the scaffolding gave away and precipitated him to the ground, a distance of forty feet. He died instantly. Frank McFarland was on the scaffold, but escaped with a badly mangled foot. Both men are well known in Omaha. Until recently Foley occupied quarters in a boarding house on Harney street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. McFarland was raised in Omaha and his widowed mother and sister reside on Vinton street near Twenty seventh. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ne/gage/vitals/deaths/foley4dt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/nefiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb