Burton married Ethel Richey on 26 Nov 1919 in Madison County, Indiana. They had one daughter, Helen L Henry (b abt 1921), and lived in Anderson, Indiana.
The following excerpt was transcribed from a newspaper clipping found among his sister Ruby's belongings:
"His body crushed and almost severed at the abdomen, Burton L. Henry, age 40, 2202 Main street, veteran Anderson trainman lived twenty-two minutes to speak a farewell to his family before his injuries proved fatal along the tracks of the Big Four railroad at Knightstown at 3:52 p. m. Saturday.
Henry, one of the brakemen on a local freight train operating between Anderson and North Vernon, fell unobserved from the top of a box car, the wheels of which passed over his body when he fell to the rails near the Perry-Alford fence factory. The train had stopped there on the return trip to Anderson to pick up three cars."
The following excerpt was transcribed from a newspaper clipping found among his sister Ruby's belongings:
"His body crushed and almost severed at the abdomen, Burton L. Henry, age 40, 2202 Main street, veteran Anderson trainman lived twenty-two minutes to speak a farewell to his family before his injuries proved fatal along the tracks of the Big Four railroad at Knightstown at 3:52 p. m. Saturday.
Henry, one of the brakemen on a local freight train operating between Anderson and North Vernon, fell unobserved from the top of a box car, the wheels of which passed over his body when he fell to the rails near the Perry-Alford fence factory. The train had stopped there on the return trip to Anderson to pick up three cars."
Burton married Ethel Richey on 26 Nov 1919 in Madison County, Indiana. They had one daughter, Helen L Henry (b abt 1921), and lived in Anderson, Indiana.
The following excerpt was transcribed from a newspaper clipping found among his sister Ruby's belongings:
"His body crushed and almost severed at the abdomen, Burton L. Henry, age 40, 2202 Main street, veteran Anderson trainman lived twenty-two minutes to speak a farewell to his family before his injuries proved fatal along the tracks of the Big Four railroad at Knightstown at 3:52 p. m. Saturday.
Henry, one of the brakemen on a local freight train operating between Anderson and North Vernon, fell unobserved from the top of a box car, the wheels of which passed over his body when he fell to the rails near the Perry-Alford fence factory. The train had stopped there on the return trip to Anderson to pick up three cars."
The following excerpt was transcribed from a newspaper clipping found among his sister Ruby's belongings:
"His body crushed and almost severed at the abdomen, Burton L. Henry, age 40, 2202 Main street, veteran Anderson trainman lived twenty-two minutes to speak a farewell to his family before his injuries proved fatal along the tracks of the Big Four railroad at Knightstown at 3:52 p. m. Saturday.
Henry, one of the brakemen on a local freight train operating between Anderson and North Vernon, fell unobserved from the top of a box car, the wheels of which passed over his body when he fell to the rails near the Perry-Alford fence factory. The train had stopped there on the return trip to Anderson to pick up three cars."
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