Chico Record, Tuesday Morning, July 27, 1915, pg 8 col 3: Seventy-Year-Old Wanderer’s Body Is Found. Corpse, Lying in Canyon, is Seen from Butte County Train. The body of F.H. Neff, a stranger, was found by passengers on the Stirling City-bound Butte County Railroad train in a canyon near the Crouch trestle, this side of Paradise a few miles, Sunday morning.
Neff, whose age, according to a coroner’s inquest at the Fetters & Williams chapel yesterday afternoon, was about seventy, died of fatty degeneration of the heart.
Neff’s body, lying on its back in a canyon fifty yards from the railroad tracks, first was noticed by D.A. Honodel, who was on his way to Coutolenc.
Honodel was riding on the tender of the locomotive with George Schmidt, the engineer. Schmidt saw the remains at about the same time and the train was stopped.
Saturday Neff was alive. He was seen in about the same spot where his body was found by A.J. Willis, the train’s conductor, but Willis saw him moved and believed he was a walker who had lain down to rest a few minutes.
A barley sack full of his possessions, including a blanket, was found on the other side of a rock from Neff’s body.
An autopsy was conducted by Dr. P.F. Bullinton yesterday afternoon. A bank book of the Rideout Bank of Marysville showed that several months ago Neff deposited $100 in that institution, but a telephone message to the bank yesterday gave the information that the money since had been checked out.
Although Neff evidently had been dead but a few hours, his body had decomposed rapidly. The funeral was held from the Bicknell & Moore parlors yesterday afternoon.
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70-year-old F.H. Neff was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on July 26, 1915 (basis of birth date).
Neff, whose age, according to a coroner’s inquest at the Fetters & Williams chapel yesterday afternoon, was about seventy, died of fatty degeneration of the heart.
Neff’s body, lying on its back in a canyon fifty yards from the railroad tracks, first was noticed by D.A. Honodel, who was on his way to Coutolenc.
Honodel was riding on the tender of the locomotive with George Schmidt, the engineer. Schmidt saw the remains at about the same time and the train was stopped.
Saturday Neff was alive. He was seen in about the same spot where his body was found by A.J. Willis, the train’s conductor, but Willis saw him moved and believed he was a walker who had lain down to rest a few minutes.
A barley sack full of his possessions, including a blanket, was found on the other side of a rock from Neff’s body.
An autopsy was conducted by Dr. P.F. Bullinton yesterday afternoon. A bank book of the Rideout Bank of Marysville showed that several months ago Neff deposited $100 in that institution, but a telephone message to the bank yesterday gave the information that the money since had been checked out.
Although Neff evidently had been dead but a few hours, his body had decomposed rapidly. The funeral was held from the Bicknell & Moore parlors yesterday afternoon.
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70-year-old F.H. Neff was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on July 26, 1915 (basis of birth date).
Chico Record, Tuesday Morning, July 27, 1915, pg 8 col 3: Seventy-Year-Old Wanderer’s Body Is Found. Corpse, Lying in Canyon, is Seen from Butte County Train. The body of F.H. Neff, a stranger, was found by passengers on the Stirling City-bound Butte County Railroad train in a canyon near the Crouch trestle, this side of Paradise a few miles, Sunday morning.
Neff, whose age, according to a coroner’s inquest at the Fetters & Williams chapel yesterday afternoon, was about seventy, died of fatty degeneration of the heart.
Neff’s body, lying on its back in a canyon fifty yards from the railroad tracks, first was noticed by D.A. Honodel, who was on his way to Coutolenc.
Honodel was riding on the tender of the locomotive with George Schmidt, the engineer. Schmidt saw the remains at about the same time and the train was stopped.
Saturday Neff was alive. He was seen in about the same spot where his body was found by A.J. Willis, the train’s conductor, but Willis saw him moved and believed he was a walker who had lain down to rest a few minutes.
A barley sack full of his possessions, including a blanket, was found on the other side of a rock from Neff’s body.
An autopsy was conducted by Dr. P.F. Bullinton yesterday afternoon. A bank book of the Rideout Bank of Marysville showed that several months ago Neff deposited $100 in that institution, but a telephone message to the bank yesterday gave the information that the money since had been checked out.
Although Neff evidently had been dead but a few hours, his body had decomposed rapidly. The funeral was held from the Bicknell & Moore parlors yesterday afternoon.
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70-year-old F.H. Neff was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on July 26, 1915 (basis of birth date).
Neff, whose age, according to a coroner’s inquest at the Fetters & Williams chapel yesterday afternoon, was about seventy, died of fatty degeneration of the heart.
Neff’s body, lying on its back in a canyon fifty yards from the railroad tracks, first was noticed by D.A. Honodel, who was on his way to Coutolenc.
Honodel was riding on the tender of the locomotive with George Schmidt, the engineer. Schmidt saw the remains at about the same time and the train was stopped.
Saturday Neff was alive. He was seen in about the same spot where his body was found by A.J. Willis, the train’s conductor, but Willis saw him moved and believed he was a walker who had lain down to rest a few minutes.
A barley sack full of his possessions, including a blanket, was found on the other side of a rock from Neff’s body.
An autopsy was conducted by Dr. P.F. Bullinton yesterday afternoon. A bank book of the Rideout Bank of Marysville showed that several months ago Neff deposited $100 in that institution, but a telephone message to the bank yesterday gave the information that the money since had been checked out.
Although Neff evidently had been dead but a few hours, his body had decomposed rapidly. The funeral was held from the Bicknell & Moore parlors yesterday afternoon.
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70-year-old F.H. Neff was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on July 26, 1915 (basis of birth date).
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