Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Hiram VEEK

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> February 2007

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ORFORDVILLE MAN BURNED TO DEATH

Orfordville, Dec. 28. Hiram Veek, a weak-witted man of 33, was burned to
death late Saturday afternoon in a fire that destroyed the O. H. Veek farm
home five miles west of Orfordville. Since the death of the man's mother
two years ago, he and his father had lived alone. 

Shortly after 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon the father, went to the barn to
do his chores. In a few minutes he saw flames bursting from the windows of
the house. He rushed to the place and made a desperate effort to rescue his
son. He was badly burned in his unsuccessful effort to reach the son.

It is believed the son, poured the contents of a can of gasoline on a fire
in the heating stove and was covered with the blazing gasoline in the
explosion that followed. Nothing could be done to save the farm house and
it was burned to the ground. What remained of Hiram's body was recovered
several hours later and was interred in the Lutheran cemetery at
Orfordville Sunday afternoon.

December 31, 1925, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin