wood, grover

Name variants

Grover Wood

Record count

4

Sources

life_events

Places seen

Mount Olive, Ill.

First event date

1914-07-22

Last event date

1914-07-22

Timeline — 2 events

• 1914-07-22 Was killed Saturday when overtaken by a severe thunderstorm and rain at Mount [cut off at bottom of shot] while traveling to work the oats harvest in Illinois; his corpse was brought back on the southbound Cotton Belt train at 6 p.m.; he had left Dexter a few weeks ago with his brother-in-law George… accident · life_events|Dexter Statesman 1914-07-22 clip ds-1911-1930-20260925T053037 + life_events|Dexter Statesman 1914-07-22 clip backlog-1911-20-063 + life_events|Dexter Statesman 1914-07-22 clip lane-B-898
• 1914-07-22 Mount Olive, Ill.. Grover Wood, about 21 years old, son of T. E. Wood, was killed Saturday night when he leapt from a box car during a thunderstorm at Mount Olive, Ill., fell back under the train and had both legs severed; taken to the hospital at Litchfield, Ill., where he died at 7 the next mornin… accident · life_events|Dexter Statesman 1914-07-22 clip ds-1911-1930-20260925T053221.175770264Z + life_events|Dexter Statesman 1914-07-22 clip ds-1911-1930-20260925T053258

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