Son of Lina Christina Koenig and Theodore Samuel Kamepfe. Never married and had no children. Otto was christened on April 25, 1920 when he was eleven days old. In the 1930 Missouri census, he appears as a nine-year-old boy on the farm near Frohna with his parents and four siblings. By 1940, he was still single and worked as a blacksmith and helper in the Frohna Feed Store. When he died at age twenty, his Missouri death certificate #19189 showed that he was instantly killed after falling sixty feet from a roof after slipping off scaffolding while painting the roof of the flour (or feed) mill and that he suffered a fractured skull at the base. A newspaper article from the period included a few other details. Theobold Weinbold was helping and witnessed the accident. At 10:30 a.m. (on May 29) Otto "was using a regular painter's ladder and had placed it in position on the east side of the building with the hooks over the comb of the tin roof. He had been painting for some time when the hooks slipped and the sliding ladder carried him off the roof. He struck an offset in the building about fifteen feet down, then fell an additional sixty feet to the ground." It continued, "His neck was broken and his skull was crushed.
A verdict of death due to unavoidable accident was returned by a jury called by Dr. W. H. Bailey coroner." Some family members believed the accident was a result of negligence on the part of the feedmill because it didn't provide adequate safety equipment, and decades later they still expressed bitterness over his untimely death. He is buried in Concordia Lutheran Cemetery in Frohna.
A verdict of death due to unavoidable accident was returned by a jury called by Dr. W. H. Bailey coroner." Some family members believed the accident was a result of negligence on the part of the feedmill because it didn't provide adequate safety equipment, and decades later they still expressed bitterness over his untimely death. He is buried in Concordia Lutheran Cemetery in Frohna.
Son of Lina Christina Koenig and Theodore Samuel Kamepfe. Never married and had no children. Otto was christened on April 25, 1920 when he was eleven days old. In the 1930 Missouri census, he appears as a nine-year-old boy on the farm near Frohna with his parents and four siblings. By 1940, he was still single and worked as a blacksmith and helper in the Frohna Feed Store. When he died at age twenty, his Missouri death certificate #19189 showed that he was instantly killed after falling sixty feet from a roof after slipping off scaffolding while painting the roof of the flour (or feed) mill and that he suffered a fractured skull at the base. A newspaper article from the period included a few other details. Theobold Weinbold was helping and witnessed the accident. At 10:30 a.m. (on May 29) Otto "was using a regular painter's ladder and had placed it in position on the east side of the building with the hooks over the comb of the tin roof. He had been painting for some time when the hooks slipped and the sliding ladder carried him off the roof. He struck an offset in the building about fifteen feet down, then fell an additional sixty feet to the ground." It continued, "His neck was broken and his skull was crushed.
A verdict of death due to unavoidable accident was returned by a jury called by Dr. W. H. Bailey coroner." Some family members believed the accident was a result of negligence on the part of the feedmill because it didn't provide adequate safety equipment, and decades later they still expressed bitterness over his untimely death. He is buried in Concordia Lutheran Cemetery in Frohna.
A verdict of death due to unavoidable accident was returned by a jury called by Dr. W. H. Bailey coroner." Some family members believed the accident was a result of negligence on the part of the feedmill because it didn't provide adequate safety equipment, and decades later they still expressed bitterness over his untimely death. He is buried in Concordia Lutheran Cemetery in Frohna.
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