Summit County OhArchives Obituaries.....Almon, Mrs. Ridley (nee Mittie Pearl Allen) July 26, 1926
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"The Roanoke Leader"
Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, July 28, 1926

MRS. ALMON IS KILLED IN ACCIDENT IN AKRON

Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Allen received this morning by telegram the distressing 
news that their daughter Mrs. Ridley Almon had been killed by accident in 
Akron, Ohio where Mr. and Mrs. Almon were making their home. The body is being 
brought home for burial. No further particulars are known at this writing.
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Issue of Wednesday, August 4, 1926

FUNERAL OF MRS. ALMON HELD AT GLENN, GEORGIA ON JULY 30th

Funeral services and interment of Mrs. Ridley Almon occurred at the former 
home of the family in Glenn, Georgia last Friday at 11 a.m. Rev. N.H. 
Abernethy was in charge of the services. Mrs. Almon was the daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Joe H. Allen of this place. Details of the death are given in a 
newspaper of Akron, Ohio from which we quote as follows:

DEATH BY ACCIDENT

Mrs. Mittie Pearl Almon, age 26, wife of Ridley Almon of 1195 Girard St., 
met death through the accidental discharge of a shot gun. This was 
determined Tuesday morning when detectives G. Scrivner, Ryland and Gustavel 
and Lieutenant Frank McAllister went over the scene with Coroner M.B. Crafts 
and assistant prosecutor, Dwite Shaffner.

Mrs. Almon was shot in the head late Monday night when both barrels of the 
shotgun exploded after her husband had cleaned it. Mrs. Almon, according to 
the account told by Mr. Almon and their little six year old daughter Jettie 
Lee, attempted to replace the shotgun in the clothes press. She crawled on 
top of a trunk to place the gun on a shelf in the closet, when the gun 
slipped from her hand and both hammers struck against the trunk, discharging 
both shells. Mrs. Almon's head was nearly torn off by the shot. She fell 
from the closet into the bedroom. Police found the hammer imprints on the 
trunk. This verifies Mr. Almon's story of the death. The body has been 
removed to the Billow Chapel. Funeral arrangements have not been made at 
this writing. Besides her husband and daughter, Mrs. Almon leaves a four 
year old son Robert. He was playing in the back yard at the time of the 
accident.

Additional Comments:
Ohio Death Certificate Index, 1913 - 1944 
ALMON, Mittie P.
Death date: 7/26/1926
Summit County  
Volume #5111, Certificate #47176 


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