Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Floyd Simmons, 1929
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SIMMONS, FLOYD
(24 Jan 1929, Thursday, Erick Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
FLOYD SIMMONS KILLED IN ACCIDENT
Monday evening at about 2 o'clock Floyd Simmons, age 23, who was head
ginner for the Farmers Gin, located at Texola, was killed when he was
caught in the cotton gin saws and jerked into the stand.  No one witnessed
the accident, and the first information that anything was wrong was when a
man entered the gin and seen the body dangling from the stand.  He gave
the alarm and after the machinery was stopped it took almost two hours to
extricate the body from the saws.  His head was horribly cut.
Mr. Fatheree, undertaker, said that he never seen a man so badly cut about
the head, Mr. Simmons evidently met death instantly.
The body was brought to the Fatheree Funeral home, where it was prepared
for burial.
Mr. Simmons has a sister and an uncle living north of Texola.

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