Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Tom Slammons

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The Hominy News
Vol. XXIV, Number 5
Hominy, Osage County, Oklahoma
Friday, Dec. 14, 1928
Front Page, Col.5

Death of Tom Slammons

Funeral services fro Tom Slammons, aged 47 years, who died at the city 
hospital last Sunday night about 9:30 o'clock as a result of injuries 
received when the truck in which he was riding was struck by a Katy train 
near Wynona Thursday night of last week, were conducted at the Hominy 
Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon by Father Wm. Huffer, of Pawhuska.  A large 
concourse of friends and relatives were present at the services.  Interment 
was made in the Hominy cemetery.

Mr. Slammons, a well known ranchman who resides about eight miles northwest 
of Hominy, was returning from Hominy to his home Thursday night, and his 
truck stalled on the railroad.  He was hit by a fast night train.  One of 
his limbs was broken in several places and he sustained severe body 
injuries.  He was picked up by the train crew and brought to Hominy, where 
he was placed in the city hospital for treatment.

Deceased leaves a wife and three children, two daughters and one son.