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Betty Jane Edwards

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Betty Jane Edwards

Birth
Amboy, Lee County, Illinois, USA
Death
28 Nov 1937 (aged 12)
Franklin Grove, Lee County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Franklin Grove, Lee County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Betty Jane Edwards was killed instantly when the milk truck in which she was riding with her brother-in-law, Howard Mershon, its driver, skidded on icy pavement onto North-Western railroad tracks directly into the path of a rapidly approaching freight train. Howard Mershon died November 30.

Refer to the Ashton Gazette's (Ashton, Illinois) December 2, 1937 edition for her obituary, and an account of this horrible accident. (Newspapers.com has the obituary.)
Betty Jane Edwards was killed instantly when the milk truck in which she was riding with her brother-in-law, Howard Mershon, its driver, skidded on icy pavement onto North-Western railroad tracks directly into the path of a rapidly approaching freight train. Howard Mershon died November 30.

Refer to the Ashton Gazette's (Ashton, Illinois) December 2, 1937 edition for her obituary, and an account of this horrible accident. (Newspapers.com has the obituary.)


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