GROVER CLEVELAND BEASLEY, 52, a lineman of the municipal electric light and power plant, was electrocuted yesterday morning by a 2200 volt shock while tapping a new line into the Brandt Cabinet Works, 600 block Pennsylvania Avenue. Death was instantaneous. The power was quickly turned off and the body was removed from the pole by fellow workers and police. R. Daniels, superintendent of the plant, and other employees attempted to resuscitate Beasley by artificial respiration. It is believed that Beasley's foot slipped while working on the line and touched another wire to produce the death-dealing shock. The coroner gave a verdict of accidental death. The electrocution was the first for a municipal electric light worker for more than seven years.
Beasley lived at 225 Kuhn Avenue. He was born and reared in Richmond, Va. and was a member of the Church of God.
Surviving are: wife, Lula May; son, Edward LeRoy, at home; sister, Mrs. Albert T. Ford, Ashland, Va.; brothers, Henry, Williamsport; William O., Burkittsville; and Frank, Washington, DC.
Services were held at the Church of God; interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery; arrangements by the A.K. Coffman Funeral Home.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, April 5, 1937
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Beasley lived at 225 Kuhn Avenue. He was born and reared in Richmond, Va. and was a member of the Church of God.
Surviving are: wife, Lula May; son, Edward LeRoy, at home; sister, Mrs. Albert T. Ford, Ashland, Va.; brothers, Henry, Williamsport; William O., Burkittsville; and Frank, Washington, DC.
Services were held at the Church of God; interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery; arrangements by the A.K. Coffman Funeral Home.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, April 5, 1937
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GROVER CLEVELAND BEASLEY, 52, a lineman of the municipal electric light and power plant, was electrocuted yesterday morning by a 2200 volt shock while tapping a new line into the Brandt Cabinet Works, 600 block Pennsylvania Avenue. Death was instantaneous. The power was quickly turned off and the body was removed from the pole by fellow workers and police. R. Daniels, superintendent of the plant, and other employees attempted to resuscitate Beasley by artificial respiration. It is believed that Beasley's foot slipped while working on the line and touched another wire to produce the death-dealing shock. The coroner gave a verdict of accidental death. The electrocution was the first for a municipal electric light worker for more than seven years.
Beasley lived at 225 Kuhn Avenue. He was born and reared in Richmond, Va. and was a member of the Church of God.
Surviving are: wife, Lula May; son, Edward LeRoy, at home; sister, Mrs. Albert T. Ford, Ashland, Va.; brothers, Henry, Williamsport; William O., Burkittsville; and Frank, Washington, DC.
Services were held at the Church of God; interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery; arrangements by the A.K. Coffman Funeral Home.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, April 5, 1937
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Beasley lived at 225 Kuhn Avenue. He was born and reared in Richmond, Va. and was a member of the Church of God.
Surviving are: wife, Lula May; son, Edward LeRoy, at home; sister, Mrs. Albert T. Ford, Ashland, Va.; brothers, Henry, Williamsport; William O., Burkittsville; and Frank, Washington, DC.
Services were held at the Church of God; interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery; arrangements by the A.K. Coffman Funeral Home.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, April 5, 1937
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