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James Monroe Aiken

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James Monroe Aiken

Birth
Pike County, Illinois, USA
Death
11 Sep 1928 (aged 78)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 4, Lot NWC 227
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THE OKLAHOMAN: 9/12/1928 WATCHMAN IS KILLED AS HE WARNS DRIVER (Wednesday) & 9/12/1928 DEATHS & FUNERALS (Wednesday)

Name: James M. Aiken

Died: Tuesday morning, age 76

Residence: 610 E. 7th

James was the watchman at the Fifth street and Santa Fe tracks intersection and was killed while warning a motorist of an approaching passenger train. He ran out to flag an approaching automobile and stepped in front of the approaching switch engine that killed him.

Survivors: 3 daughters, (Mrs. Ora Powell, Twenty-seventh street, south, and Miller avenue), (Mrs. M.L.(Ione) Robbins, Twenty-sixth street, south, and Miller avenue), and (Mrs. J.E. (Alice) Satterthwaite, 1304 West Seventh street); and one son, Glen C. Aiken, 1604 West Forty-second street.

Funeral: Wednesday 2:30 PM Garrison Funeral home by Rev. Cecil Berry
THE OKLAHOMAN: 9/12/1928 WATCHMAN IS KILLED AS HE WARNS DRIVER (Wednesday) & 9/12/1928 DEATHS & FUNERALS (Wednesday)

Name: James M. Aiken

Died: Tuesday morning, age 76

Residence: 610 E. 7th

James was the watchman at the Fifth street and Santa Fe tracks intersection and was killed while warning a motorist of an approaching passenger train. He ran out to flag an approaching automobile and stepped in front of the approaching switch engine that killed him.

Survivors: 3 daughters, (Mrs. Ora Powell, Twenty-seventh street, south, and Miller avenue), (Mrs. M.L.(Ione) Robbins, Twenty-sixth street, south, and Miller avenue), and (Mrs. J.E. (Alice) Satterthwaite, 1304 West Seventh street); and one son, Glen C. Aiken, 1604 West Forty-second street.

Funeral: Wednesday 2:30 PM Garrison Funeral home by Rev. Cecil Berry

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