Funeral services for Joseph Alonzo Buckingham, 67, who was fatally injured in a fall Friday afternoon at Story, will be held Monday afternoon at the Story Community Hall, with the Rev. S. R. McCarthy officiating, and the Champion Funeral Home in charge.
Mr. Buckingham, pioneer resident of Story, received a fractured skull when a scaffold upon which he was working, broke, letting him fall to a cement floor 10 feet below.
He died just as a physician who had been called from Sheridan reached his side.
Mr. Buckingham was a farmer by occupation and had made his home in Wyoming for the past 51 years being one of Johnson and Sheridan counties' most prominent citizens.
He was born in Page county, Iowa, on October 7, 1869.
When he was a boy of 15, left his birth place in the company of his father and mother; two sisters, and a brother-in-law. He arrived in Buffalo on the seventeenth day of July 1885.
The trip from Iowa was made in a covered wagon and consumed one month and 11 days.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Mable C. Buckingham, he is survived by four sons, Milo Todd Buckingham of Lyons, Colo.; Mervin L. Buckingham of San Diego, Calif.; Fredrick L. and Virgil Curtis Buckingham of Story; two daughters, Miss Sarah Gyla Buckingham, and Miss Della Ruth Buckingham, also of Story and one sister, Mrs. J.M. Sanders of Bellegrade, Mont.
Mr. Buckingham, pioneer resident of Story, received a fractured skull when a scaffold upon which he was working, broke, letting him fall to a cement floor 10 feet below.
He died just as a physician who had been called from Sheridan reached his side.
Mr. Buckingham was a farmer by occupation and had made his home in Wyoming for the past 51 years being one of Johnson and Sheridan counties' most prominent citizens.
He was born in Page county, Iowa, on October 7, 1869.
When he was a boy of 15, left his birth place in the company of his father and mother; two sisters, and a brother-in-law. He arrived in Buffalo on the seventeenth day of July 1885.
The trip from Iowa was made in a covered wagon and consumed one month and 11 days.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Mable C. Buckingham, he is survived by four sons, Milo Todd Buckingham of Lyons, Colo.; Mervin L. Buckingham of San Diego, Calif.; Fredrick L. and Virgil Curtis Buckingham of Story; two daughters, Miss Sarah Gyla Buckingham, and Miss Della Ruth Buckingham, also of Story and one sister, Mrs. J.M. Sanders of Bellegrade, Mont.
Funeral services for Joseph Alonzo Buckingham, 67, who was fatally injured in a fall Friday afternoon at Story, will be held Monday afternoon at the Story Community Hall, with the Rev. S. R. McCarthy officiating, and the Champion Funeral Home in charge.
Mr. Buckingham, pioneer resident of Story, received a fractured skull when a scaffold upon which he was working, broke, letting him fall to a cement floor 10 feet below.
He died just as a physician who had been called from Sheridan reached his side.
Mr. Buckingham was a farmer by occupation and had made his home in Wyoming for the past 51 years being one of Johnson and Sheridan counties' most prominent citizens.
He was born in Page county, Iowa, on October 7, 1869.
When he was a boy of 15, left his birth place in the company of his father and mother; two sisters, and a brother-in-law. He arrived in Buffalo on the seventeenth day of July 1885.
The trip from Iowa was made in a covered wagon and consumed one month and 11 days.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Mable C. Buckingham, he is survived by four sons, Milo Todd Buckingham of Lyons, Colo.; Mervin L. Buckingham of San Diego, Calif.; Fredrick L. and Virgil Curtis Buckingham of Story; two daughters, Miss Sarah Gyla Buckingham, and Miss Della Ruth Buckingham, also of Story and one sister, Mrs. J.M. Sanders of Bellegrade, Mont.
Mr. Buckingham, pioneer resident of Story, received a fractured skull when a scaffold upon which he was working, broke, letting him fall to a cement floor 10 feet below.
He died just as a physician who had been called from Sheridan reached his side.
Mr. Buckingham was a farmer by occupation and had made his home in Wyoming for the past 51 years being one of Johnson and Sheridan counties' most prominent citizens.
He was born in Page county, Iowa, on October 7, 1869.
When he was a boy of 15, left his birth place in the company of his father and mother; two sisters, and a brother-in-law. He arrived in Buffalo on the seventeenth day of July 1885.
The trip from Iowa was made in a covered wagon and consumed one month and 11 days.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Mable C. Buckingham, he is survived by four sons, Milo Todd Buckingham of Lyons, Colo.; Mervin L. Buckingham of San Diego, Calif.; Fredrick L. and Virgil Curtis Buckingham of Story; two daughters, Miss Sarah Gyla Buckingham, and Miss Della Ruth Buckingham, also of Story and one sister, Mrs. J.M. Sanders of Bellegrade, Mont.
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