Hezikiah H Kelley lost is first wife to tuberculosis and their infant child. He lost his second wife and their five children to the Saint Francis Dam catastrophe March 13, 1928 at Ventura County, California. He was survived by his daughter Virginia Mildred Kelley Minar.
Obituary:
One-Legged Man Saved His Baby, But Lost His Wife and 4 Children
Hezikiah H Kelley's cup of woe is full and over flowing. A well known mechanic, he lost his leg some two years ago. For a year or more he had been operating a little ranch and raising rabbits on a tract south of the Bardsdale bridge. When the waters struck he grabbed the baby, clung to a bit of drift, where he secures the child and was about to try to get back to his family. But Mrs Kelley, little Harold, Phyllis, Dorothy and Dolores swept by, crying for help that could not come.
His baby son he was able to save, Everett M Kelley, would pass on later the same day.
Obituary:
One-Legged Man Saved His Baby, But Lost His Wife and 4 Children
Hezikiah H Kelley's cup of woe is full and over flowing. A well known mechanic, he lost his leg some two years ago. For a year or more he had been operating a little ranch and raising rabbits on a tract south of the Bardsdale bridge. When the waters struck he grabbed the baby, clung to a bit of drift, where he secures the child and was about to try to get back to his family. But Mrs Kelley, little Harold, Phyllis, Dorothy and Dolores swept by, crying for help that could not come.
His baby son he was able to save, Everett M Kelley, would pass on later the same day.
Hezikiah H Kelley lost is first wife to tuberculosis and their infant child. He lost his second wife and their five children to the Saint Francis Dam catastrophe March 13, 1928 at Ventura County, California. He was survived by his daughter Virginia Mildred Kelley Minar.
Obituary:
One-Legged Man Saved His Baby, But Lost His Wife and 4 Children
Hezikiah H Kelley's cup of woe is full and over flowing. A well known mechanic, he lost his leg some two years ago. For a year or more he had been operating a little ranch and raising rabbits on a tract south of the Bardsdale bridge. When the waters struck he grabbed the baby, clung to a bit of drift, where he secures the child and was about to try to get back to his family. But Mrs Kelley, little Harold, Phyllis, Dorothy and Dolores swept by, crying for help that could not come.
His baby son he was able to save, Everett M Kelley, would pass on later the same day.
Obituary:
One-Legged Man Saved His Baby, But Lost His Wife and 4 Children
Hezikiah H Kelley's cup of woe is full and over flowing. A well known mechanic, he lost his leg some two years ago. For a year or more he had been operating a little ranch and raising rabbits on a tract south of the Bardsdale bridge. When the waters struck he grabbed the baby, clung to a bit of drift, where he secures the child and was about to try to get back to his family. But Mrs Kelley, little Harold, Phyllis, Dorothy and Dolores swept by, crying for help that could not come.
His baby son he was able to save, Everett M Kelley, would pass on later the same day.
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