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Obit of James H. Gentry - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Sandi Carter   SandKatC@aol.com  7 Apr 2000
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The Verden News
June 21, 1918



The many oldtime friends of James H. Gentry will be grieved to learn of 
his death, caused from an accident while working on a concrete building 
in Miami, Oklahoma, May 27. The concrete men were just finishing filling 
the second floor with concrete, when Mr. Gentry heard the frame work 
cracking and ran underneath to brace the floor up when the entire floor 
collapsed, buring him beneath the framework and soft concrete. He never 
lost consciousness and called for help. His calling helped the men to 
find him more quickly and in twenty minutes, by sawing timbers and 
clearing away debris, they lifted him out.

Medical aid was at once secured and all was done that was possible for 
his comfort. He was found paralyzed all over but could talk. He told his 
wife, when she arrived from their home at Watts, Oklahoma, that he would 
never recover. The following Saturday night was his time to go home and 
so determined was he to go to see his children that they put him on a 
cot and carried him on the train and Dr. Thrailkill, their old family 
physician when they lived in Chickasha, accompanied him to Watts Sunday 
and it was decided to take him to Kansas City, where the doctors said an 
operation would cause instant death, as the injuries were of the neck 
and spinal cord. All that human skill could do was done to alleviate his 
suffering but Monday, June 10, two weeks after the accident, he passed 
quietly away, ready and willing to meet his Master. At his own request 
he was buried in Verden, where his children could visit his grave. 
Interment was held Wednesday, June 12, 1918.


Submitted by Sandi Carter